WELCOME HOME VIETNAM VETERANS DAY!

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speaking of football how about those Vikings!

LadyJazzer wrote: I was NOT a "war protester" back then... As a matter of fact, as much as I was against the war then, I joined the USO and spent two years over in the Far East, INCLUDING Viet Nam, Japan, Guam, The Philippines, and many other sites, doing shows for the troops.

There is a chance I might have seen you. Those USO shows were a great break.

Thank You.

LJ must have been the opening act for Jane Fonda!!

outdoor338 wrote: speaking of football how about those Vikings!

rofllol :rofl

Nmysys wrote: LJ must have been the opening act for Jane Fonda!!

A simple thank you might have been nice.

You might have met my brother LJ, on his 3rd tour as a chopper pilot he flew a lot of USO members around. We were grateful that tour was safer than his first two.

I doubt that I would have crossed paths with Fonda... I was there in '68-'69, and she didn't do her "tour" until 1972... But I sure crossed paths with a lot of guys, and thousands of "faces in the crowd." I remember one particularly memorable concert that we did out on one of the forward airbases...We played in a hanger that was big enough to put about 3 Goodyear blimps in, (a B-52 hanger, maybe?), and at the end of the concert we were exiting off the back of the stage and one hand stuck out and grabbed mine, and asked me, "Are you REALLY from __________?" (They had introduced all of us and our "home towns" at the end of the show.)

He said, "You look so familiar!?! Did you go to _______ High School?" (No...)

"Did you go to _______ Junior High School?" (No...)

"Did you go to _______ Elementary?" "Yes!!"

"I'm DOUGLAS GREEN!...I sat behind you in the 3rd grade!"

Tearful reunion... It was so weird to go halfway around the world and run into someone in the middle of a war that you went to GRADE School with!


(Insert standard snarky cheap-shot remarks from the right-wing slimebags here: _________________________________)

LadyJazzer wrote: I doubt that I would have crossed paths with Fonda... I was there in '68-'69, and she didn't do her "tour" until 1972... But I sure crossed paths with a lot of guys, and thousands of "faces in the crowd." I remember one particularly memorable concert that we did out on one of the forward airbases...We played in a hanger that was big enough to put about 3 Goodyear blimps in, (a B-52 hanger, maybe?), and at the end of the concert we were exiting off the back of the stage and one hand stuck out and grabbed mine, and asked me, "Are you REALLY from __________?" (They had introduced all of us and our "home towns" at the end of the show.)

He said, "You look so familiar!?! Did you go to _______ High School?" (No...)

"Did you go to _______ Junior High School?" (No...)

"Did you go to _______ Elementary?" "Yes!!"

"I'm DOUGLAS GREEN!...I sat behind you in the 3rd grade!"

Tearful reunion... It was so weird to go halfway around the world and run into someone in the middle of a war that you went to GRADE School with!


(Insert standard snarky cheap-shot remarks from the right-wing slimebags here: _________________________________)