Veterans Day [emoji1258][emoji2422][emoji3590]‍🩹[emoji915] Message

TxDoc

TxDoc

Well-Known Member
Lifetime Member
May 19, 2019
2,239
7,593
113
TEXAS 🇨🇱
photos.app.goo.gl
Ownership

  1. 1000-5
18 year old me in Vietnam 1969View attachment 449687
lowranger

I cannot imagine what you thought, as a 19 year old...8,000 miles away from home. A Marine friend, who has passed, told me there were "kids" who never had flown... Flew across the country, put on ships and for weeks were sea sick and the toilets were stopped up and overflowed with vomit and feces and some stayed on deck and got sick over the railing.

Once there, they went from sandy beaches, to jungle, to mountains. It was a surreal experience. David said they were constantly wet and you got new boot laces and clothes when they rotted off.

David's photo is below. He was awarded three purple hearts and a bronze star. He maintained contacts in the Marines and from 1991 on, he was able to travel to Iraq and Afghanistan with friends who were higher ups in the Marine Corps. He was proud to fly his Texas flag tr wherever he went. He took hundreds of photos. He wanted to go support you men who had never been shot at in anger. His wife was a true angel. He suffered for years with nightmares and most wives would not, or could not hang in there. But, Jeanie did and made his life worthwhile. ‍🩹

4e96efe0d3a77d2ab346a414ee40a73a.jpg


Sent from my motorola edge plus 2023 using Tapatalk
 
lowranger

lowranger

Well-Known Member
Supporting Member
Sep 23, 2020
505
2,720
93
Northern California
Ownership

  1. Talon X
lowranger

I cannot imagine what you thought, as a 19 year old...8,000 miles away from home. A Marine friend, who has passed, told me there were "kids" who never had flown... Flew across the country, put on ships and for weeks were sea sick and the toilets were stopped up and overflowed with vomit and feces and some stayed on deck and got sick over the railing.

Once there, they went from sandy beaches, to jungle, to mountains. It was a surreal experience. David said they were constantly wet and you got new boot laces and clothes when they rotted off.

David's photo is below. He was awarded three purple hearts and a bronze star. He maintained contacts in the Marines and from 1991 on, he was able to travel to Iraq and Afghanistan with friends who were higher ups in the Marine Corps. He was proud to fly his Texas flag tr wherever he went. He took hundreds of photos. He wanted to go support you men who had never been shot at in anger. His wife was a true angel. He suffered for years with nightmares and most wives would not, or could not hang in there. But, Jeanie did and made his life worthwhile. ‍🩹

4e96efe0d3a77d2ab346a414ee40a73a.jpg


Sent from my motorola edge plus 2023 using Tapatalk
Sounds like David was quite the Marine.
 
TxDoc

TxDoc

Well-Known Member
Lifetime Member
May 19, 2019
2,239
7,593
113
TEXAS 🇨🇱
photos.app.goo.gl
Ownership

  1. 1000-5
I follow these channels and they really make you think and realize the difference that was made thru personal sacrifices...


WWII Then and Now



Tragedy Hunters



Sent from my motorola edge plus 2023 using Tapatalk
 

About us

  • Our community has been around for many years and pride ourselves on offering unbiased, critical discussion among people of all different backgrounds. We are working every day to make sure our community is one of the best.

User Menu

Buy us a beer!

  • Lots of time and money has gone into making sure the community is running the best software, best designs, and all the other bells and whistles. Care to buy us a beer? We'd really appreciate it!

    Beer Fund!

    Club Membership!