One, those guys never where in a War or Two, had some
easy Base Camp job. ( Shoe Maker, Typist, Typewriter
Repairman.....)

I always hung around War Vets and none had a problem
talking to each other. Its the one's who say, ' I never
talk about it ' is one of the Two in the first parentheses.

I happen to find the War Stories just get a bit wilder
as time goes by.
( Where is Prince Yeff of Arabia ? Zoomie of the Sands. )!



"Atlanta Ramfan" wrote in message news:hyMEb.5495$wL6.183@newsread1.news.atl.earthli nk.net...
> Hey guys, just found the newsgroup after having waded about in
> the WWII newsgroup.
>
> I'm not a complete novice about the war, I volunteered and did
> my 4 years in the USAF starting in 1976, got to work on the
> first batch of F-15's to come out of St. Louis.
>
> My question to REAL Vietnam vets (not to someone wanting
> to give their anti-war views) is why it was so hard to get someone
> after they got back from war to tell me what they had been through,
> particularly when I was in high school 1972-5 and particularly before
> that, Junior HS 1970-2.
>
> Now there's a plethora of films out there to watch, but it seems
> they all have some kind of spin to give, and there's few that just
> show a real story (maybe Full Metal Jacket, but even that seems
> overboard in places, particularly in basic - did any of you know
> of someone who went ballistic and killed their DI?)
>
> Maybe you're already burned out on people like me, but I've got
> a friend who was in the Mogadishu thing, and he's had no problem
> letting me know what went down, even showed me the round he
> got hit with.
>
> Oh well, I'll shut up and hope some one responds, and thank you
> guys for putting your asses on the line for me.
>
> Paul
>
>