I hope I did this correctly. One of my grandsons came upon this video on Youtube. I think it was MNL asking about what the battle was like. This pretty much sums it up in 3 minutes. It's called "Beware of a Pissed off Marine"
I didn't "like" your post because it just didn't seem right to "like" something like that. But that video was pretty powerful. I was just a bit young for Viet Nam (66 now, 14 during the Tet/Hue battle) but I remember watching the Tet battle and Hue on the news every night. I will never forget watching men crouching behind a brick wall, raising only their rifle above the wall and firing off a clip. I know they didn't do that all the time but that stuck in my memory.
In my early twenties I had the opportunity to walk 3 blocks to have a few beers. VFW and legion. Most of them were veterans who fought in wars and others were social members. I always enjoyed talking to elders who were veterans. I never asked or brought up topics about military history and neither did they. One time while playing darts I witnessed someone asking odd questions about military history and where they were. I pulled him off to the side and told him not to do that. Kind of disrespectful if you ask me.
I didn't "like" your post because it just didn't seem right to "like" something like that. But that video was pretty powerful. I was just a bit young for Viet Nam (66 now, 14 during the Tet/Hue battle) but I remember watching the Tet battle and Hue on the news every night. I will never forget watching men crouching behind a brick wall, raising only their rifle above the wall and firing off a clip. I know they didn't do that all the time but that stuck in my memory.
I appreciate that. I posted the video because some fellow nits were asking about it. I never knew "Johnny Lig" was interviewed and did this. As I recall, he's a Philly Boy. He and I were in that group of 150 that went in to "mop-up". We learned and saw a lot as Marines, as boys, as a Corps, and I suppose as a Country. We knew nothing about urban warfare at the time and lost many a good man learning how to fight. Those guys are the heroes.
One of my Grandchildren saw the video and cued me in on it.
@tsuga You have my deepest thanks for being there. I was against the war but never against the men and women who served in it.
@psugrad81: I respect and appreciate that. We were sent to fight an enemy but were given strict rules and parameters in which to do it. Hell, even in Hue, where we were out-numbered we were told we couldnt fire upon this building or that building. When we took back the MACV Compound, we were told we couldnt fly the American Flag over it. Our CO was ordered to take it down. It was rumored that he told our very own Brigadier General: "With all do respect sir, if you want it down; come and take it down".
The BG was what we fondly called a REMF.
