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doublejj

doublejj

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Skeet Kuhn Dough said:
Do any of you ever wonder what your life would have been like had you stayed in and done twenty years? Do any of you ever regret getting out?
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After one tour in Vietnam in the Army i was ready to get out. But the war had an impact on me and I had re-adjustment issues after I got home. I bounced from job to job for many years and never could find a job that fit me until I found a job that gave me that same fight-or-flight adrenaline rush as I got stepping outside the wire in Nam. It felt 'normal' & so I spent the next 25 years working behind the walls inside Folsom prison.:roll:
 
GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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Skeet Kuhn Dough said:
Do any of you ever wonder what your life would have been like had you stayed in and done twenty years? Do any of you ever regret getting out?
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I did 24 AD - nothing like my Dad's experience in Korea and Nam, nor like JJ's thank God!
I saw enough to accomplish a later year Mind Fuck that I have been dealing with for years without even knowing it.

"Some things you can't un-see" because they visit you in quiet times/at night & you don't even see them coming.
 
curious2garden

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I did 24 AD - nothing like my Dad's experience in Korea and Nam, nor like JJ's thank God!
I saw enough to accomplish a later year Mind Fuck that I have been dealing with for years without even knowing it.

"Some things you can't un-see" because they visit you in quiet times/at night & you don't even see them coming.
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My hub did 22, started in Vietnam and ended in Desert Storm. He does not regret it.
PS His brother who got out after 1 hitch did.
 
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BarnBuster

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BarnBuster

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Medal of Honor created​

July 12, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signs into law a measure calling for the awarding of a U.S. Army Medal of Honor, in the name of Congress, “to such non-commissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during the present insurrection.” The previous December, Lincoln had approved a provision creating a U.S. Navy Medal of Valor, which was the basis of the Army Medal of Honor created by Congress in July 1862. The first U.S. Army soldiers to receive what would become the nation’s highest military honor were six members of a Union raiding party who in 1862 penetrated deep into Confederate territory to destroy bridges and railroad tracks between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1863, the Medal of Honor was made a permanent military decoration available to all members, including commissioned officers, of the U.S. military. It is conferred upon those who have distinguished themselves in actual combat at risk of life beyond the call of duty.

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U.S.M.C. Lieutenant Frank Reasoner—who became the first Marine to be awarded the prestigious Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam—is killed by enemy fire on this day in 1965.

Reasoner and his battalion had been on a sweep of a suspected Viet Cong area to deter any enemy activity aimed at the nearby airbase at Da Nang. He and the five-man point team he was accompanying were cut off from the main body of the company. He ordered his men to lay down a base of fire and then, repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire, killed two Viet Cong, single-handedly wiped out an enemy machine gun emplacement, and raced through enemy fire to rescue his injured radio operator. Trying to rally his men, Reasoner was hit by enemy machine gun fire and was killed instantly.

For this action, Reasoner was nominated for America’s highest award for valor. When Navy Secretary Paul H. Nitze presented the Medal of Honor to Reasoner’s widow and son in ceremonies at the Pentagon on January 31, 1967, he spoke of Reasoner’s willingness to die for his men: “Lieutenant Reasoner’s complete disregard for his own welfare will long serve as an inspiring example to others.”
 
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