Vietnam Picture Tour
 

Please visit my, "Vietnam Picture Tour," http://PZZZZ.tripod.com/namtour.html
Take a walk in "the park" grunts called Vietnam, with the 1st Air Cavalry on combat patrol. Experience chilling reality in combat action pictures and emotion packed poetry to leave the sweet and sour taste of "the Nam" pungent on your tongue, the smell of "the Nam" acrid in your nostrils, and textures of "the Nam" imbedded in you as though you were walking beside me in combat.

My poignant poems directory, pictures and artwork to show the essence and feeling of war on young "boys next door," http://pzzzz.tripod.com/nampoemsNpix.html

Lest you think I'm too serious, visit my "Realm Of Poetry," http://dreamerzz.tripod.com/SiteMap.html
Poems of love and romance, spirituality and meditation, Golden Oldies, comedy, Quests of the regal knight Richard Lionheart to the crusades and seeking the Holy Grail, dueling dragons, frolicking fairies, and comedy....and also links to my site of that bestial foul ogre called war...

Thanks for the tour.
 

What were your injuries? You never go into that. Very well done.

Keith

Thanks for the compliments bros...

Let me introduce myself. My name is Gary Jacobson. I served with B Co 2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry '66 - '67, as a combat infantryman, we called ourselves "Grunts," operating out of LZ Betty near beautiful downtown Phan Thiet, Vietnam, participating in an event that took the innocence of many a young boy, and changed us all indelibly and forever. I'm now on 100% disability rating with an extra hole in my head and shrapnel the size of a quarter imbedded in my brain, compliments of a trip wire booby trap that triggered a grenade, that in turn detonated an artillery round...and in the process completely ruined my whole day.

I welcome you to check out my latest poetry, shared with a tribute to combat photographs taken by Henri Huet, born in Dalat, Vietnam, served in Vietnam as a combat photographer with the French, 1949 to 1952, during the first Indochina conflict.
Wounded by shrapnel as he photographed U.S. Marines at Con Thien, Huet was later killed when his helicopter was shot down over Laos in ?71, a place we never officially were... He was 43.....

"Primal Shout,"
"Mad Minute!"

http://pzzzz.tripod.com/primal.html

Song playing if you use the browser Internet Explorer is,

"The River is Wide!"

Oh yes, I was wounded on a combat operation near Phan Rang...
april '67

Gary