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HereSince1628

(36,063 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:20 PM Nov 2014

VN vets...do you remember this?

The SLR camera died decades ago...the tape deck died decades ago
I never bothered getting the Seiko watch...but

Never read S&S very often, but this issue seemed like a keeper. I still have a now yellowed and brittle copy of this issue of SS.

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on edit, got my own photobucket to work

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VN vets...do you remember this? (Original Post) HereSince1628 Nov 2014 OP

I'd been in SEA for exactly one month when that issue came out. Scuba Nov 2014 #1

I think the deal was "combat" troops. It got me home ~3 weeks later HereSince1628 Nov 2014 #2

LBJ died a few days before the cease-fire LeftInTX Nov 2014 #3

Yes, he did. But, I suppose he knew it was coming HereSince1628 Nov 2014 #4

Stars and Stripes and AFRS were my tether to the world. lpbk2713 Nov 2014 #5

I'd been home for 3 years by that point... Johnyawl Nov 2014 #6

News came out when I had only two more weeks of active duty to serve. B Calm Nov 2014 #7

Yeah, I remember that headline, GGJohn Nov 2014 #8

If it hadn't been for Nixon troops would have come home Kingofalldems Nov 2014 #9

Yes, though the value of reminiscing is mostly HereSince1628 Nov 2014 #10

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. I'd been in SEA for exactly one month when that issue came out.

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:24 PM

Nov 2014

Sadly, they were wrong about the 60 days.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

2. I think the deal was "combat" troops. It got me home ~3 weeks later

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:32 PM

Nov 2014

LeftInTX

(25,337 posts)

3. LBJ died a few days before the cease-fire

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:44 PM

Nov 2014

(I'm not a vet, but clicked anyway)

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

4. Yes, he did. But, I suppose he knew it was coming

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:47 PM

Nov 2014

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)

5. Stars and Stripes and AFRS were my tether to the world.

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:50 PM

Nov 2014

Without them I would have had no idea what was going on. This was in the late 60's.

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)

6. I'd been home for 3 years by that point...

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 04:07 PM

Nov 2014

...but yeah, I remember that announcement.

B Calm

(28,762 posts)

7. News came out when I had only two more weeks of active duty to serve.

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 04:17 PM

Nov 2014

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)

8. Yeah, I remember that headline,

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 04:23 PM

Nov 2014

I'd already been gone from Vietnam after serving 2 tours, was in W. Berlin when it was announced.

Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts)

9. If it hadn't been for Nixon troops would have come home

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 04:30 PM

Nov 2014

years earlier.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

10. Yes, though the value of reminiscing is mostly

Reply to Kingofalldems (Reply #9)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 05:03 PM

Nov 2014

putting history in a personal context.

The war was a cloud on my life for many years, regardless of its rightness or wrongness. Regardless of manipulation by McNamara or Nixon, Vietnam dominated much of my life and the lives of men of my generation from the time I had any grasp of what war might mean personally, which was 1966, when my older brother was drafted until I was a participant myself.

That headline marked a significant event of shared remembrance even while interpretations of it can be uniquely individual

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