The agent Orange has taken a toll, that and the sub standard VA care. I've lost several good friends the last couple of years, I can't believe I've been spared, but old age is slowly creeping up behind me and I can't run any faster anymore
Good of you to step up!! Somethings just need to stay forgotten..That's how it works for me.
It's still an open wound Eric, even after 50 or so years to many, there were good time, but just too many bad times, even after 70 years the old timers who served in Europe & the Pacific still have nightmares, I know you meant no harm
Went to visit a neighbor in Atlanta's VA a few months back. He has all sorts of issues courtesy of Agent Orange and a heart that by all accounts should have stopped permanently long ago (it has stopped temporarily several times!). It was my first trip into that facility. I was disgusted on several fronts. And I've heard it's far from the worst.The agent Orange has taken a toll, that and the sub standard VA care. I've lost several good friends the last couple of years, I can't believe I've been spared, but old age is slowly creeping up behind me and I can't run any faster anymore
How did you like the fruit Stand, the Cheap Jewry, hats, perfumes and Flat screen TV Vendors in there LOL They have called security on me twice there because I told them to have some respect for the Veterans. I'm on choice care now, hopefully I won't have to return to that dumpWent to visit a neighbor in Atlanta's VA a few months back. He has all sorts of issues courtesy of Agent Orange and a heart that by all accounts should have stopped permanently long ago (it has stopped temporarily several times!). It was my first trip into that facility. I was disgusted on several fronts. And I've heard it's far from the worst.
I actually didn't see any of that when I went but perhaps I was just blinded by the stinging in my eyes from the smell of urine everywhere.How did you like the fruit Stand, the Cheap Jewry, hats, perfumes and Flat screen TV Vendors in there LOL They have called security on me twice there because I told them to have some respect for the Veterans. I'm on choice care now, hopefully I won't have to return to that dump
My hats of to you and all the others who've served. [Broken External Image]:Hmmm, let me see, I put two different Medics on dust offs, which left me as Platoon Sgt to take over as Medic also, then I lost three men to a Booby trap a couple of days later, one lost half his head, then as we were attacking a wood line, a guy from another Company took a direct hit from a mortor round and disintergrated and splatter me with blood, body parts and brain tissue. Then we did an all night cross jungle march thru the Delta swamps to support another Company caught in an ambush which killed about twenty or so and I used my poncho to wrap one of the bodies, because we didn't have any body bags, then on the night of Feb 20th 1968 after surviving most of the TET got hit by two Companies of NVA and took two bullet wounds and as I was still standing Commanding my Platoon took a direct hit from a 122mm Rocket round which almost blew my left leg & Arm off and sent me to Walter Reed for almost a Year. Yep, it was fun & Games, would I go back?, Hmmmmm yep, I guess I would, you're never more alive than on the Day you might die. That and I miss all them crazy Grunts who would share their last can of C Rats with you
