Tag Archives: Viet Nam War

22 October 1968

Posted on 22 October 2018 by M.

Fifty years ago today, also a Monday, at the age of twenty-one, amid a deeply unpopular war, in a decision created out of a haze of depression, patriotism, and a deep yearning to free myself from the distrustful control of … Continue reading →

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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation

Posted on 5 May 2016 by M.

A lot of abuse is being heaped upon the heads of Baby Boomers these days.  If most of the abuse-heapers were Republicans, then perhaps I could write it off as coming from people who will need a new reason for … Continue reading →

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Hooked

Posted on 28 April 2016 by M.

The war will never leave me.  I suppose I should’ve realized this sooner, but the burden of war has a cumulative effect.  It slowly reasserts itself as the years go by, when it becomes safer to think about it. Or … Continue reading →

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National We Got the Hell Out Day

Posted on 30 March 2016 by M.

  Yesterday, 29 March, was National Viet Nam Veterans’ Day.  I had no idea such a thing existed.  You may wonder, as I did, why it’s on 29 March. 29 March 1973 is the day that the last American combat … Continue reading →

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Opening the Wound

Posted on 1 February 2016 by M.

Forty-six years ago today, in Viet Nam, I was wounded during an assault by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops on a village that my infantry company was defending. It would not be an overstatement to say that those few … Continue reading →

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Flowers on a Headstone

Posted on 25 May 2015 by M.

Today is that holiday which used to be called Decoration Day, because people would decorate the graves of the war dead. It was first observed in 1868, as a way of honoring the hundreds of thousands of men who died … Continue reading →

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A Short Visit to 1968

Posted on 8 May 2015 by M.

The first thing I saw was a helicopter. It was a medevac, or had been, 45 years ago in Viet Nam. I knew, because it had a red cross on a square, white background, which was used to mark medical … Continue reading →

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“Wait until the war is over, And we’re both a little older …”

Posted on 27 April 2015 by M.

Forty years ago I was living in Houston and my then-wife was expecting the first of our three children. On that day, 27 April 1975, I had been back from Việt Nam fifty-four months – four and a half years. It … Continue reading →

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