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My antenna is up . Russ, Advanced. I hope all is well with you. We all have a little voice that talks to us. Some of us have learned to listen. Bill

Back in 1968, I would be sitting in the back of a chopper, alone. Going to some hillside base to fix a broken forklift. I would get this feeling inside. What's coming next? With 2024 , I have that...

A long time ago, some Marines put everything on the line. MEADE RIVER happened now 1968. I was just on the edge of that line. There were three grunts, Russ, Billy, and Jack. Right in the middle of...

Paul, Were you a Trucker? In the spring of 68. I hopped a ride to Pho Luc combat base. About 14 miles south of Pu Bai. A mile or two in from hwy. one. When we got to the base, there was a group of...

Lake Havasu,Az. , 72 Today. Merry Christmas to all. Bill

With my job as a heavy equipment mechanic. I would call myself, the best hitchhiker in all of the Arizona.C130s,Choppers H34,CH46 CH53, trucks, jeeps, Tanks ( ride on top ). Four or five times, I...

I have to ask. Where is Doug now? I hope I don't know the answer. Bill

A long time ago,late in the night. I posted a post that I felt like I was walking down this road alone. Up comes Doug, Captain Kirk. He said ,you are not walking alone. I always think of those words....

To those who have read these posts,the stories coming from these three Grunts. Wow!! Guys let it out. Operation Meade River was pure hell for Marine Grunts in 1968. I have the honor to start these...

Ed, please don't think there is any thing wrong. No one one feels that way. We are good. Jack, I know the good you and all grunts have done. Nothing but respect. When I fish, if I see people. I move....

To those who have read this post, the stories coming from these three Grunts. WOW!! Guys, let it out. Operation Meade River was pure hell for Marine Grunts in 1968. I have the honor to start this...

An HOA, I remember sitting on the steps in front of my hooch in An Hoa that night looking toward the river and watching the puff show. Firing streams of bullets down on the river area. I have always...

Russ,Billy,and FistFu68, I hope I have not stirred the pot to much. If I have ,my APOLOGY. Bill

Where were you 53 years ago today?

Before I went to Vietnam,they wanted me to go to language school in Monterey, Calif.I got out of that. Cap units have been a mystery to me and maybe alot more people. Someday, tell us more. Where you...

Would you have known Ken Frost? I was with him in 28 Marines, 1967. He was in Cap, two tours. I rode with him back from An Hoa, When 27 Marine left for Da Nang.He told me he had just come from...

Napalm tumbling over your heads,[ Please,Please, keep going. I was in an ambush on Hwy one ,going over the pass, going north of Da Nang. Navy jets dropping napalm over our heads. Ask the CAP guys...

WELLCOME HOME<Bill

The words WELCOME HOME mean a lot, to some it means even more. Bill

100% P.T.S.D., How many of us came home with that, with one or two tours? There are many after us in other wars that made how many tours? I have found a lot of ways to handle this memory. I live in...

Fear. When your mind is full of reference, your fear goes away. Me, I just got tired of thinking I was going to have my number called. It doesn't happen all at once, almost like a cloud comes over...

I was on the road, you guys were in the bush. Let's tell a few stories before we are gone. Bill

On Nov. 20th, I was told to go see a Capt. about a problem at Liberty Bridge. I went in and he said to go out to Liberty Bridge and fix a forklift, they will need it working. But you won't want to go...