Over The "Big Pond"

Posted Saturday, December 4, 2010, at 10:15 AM
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  • HEY ZOOK....WHAT ARE YOU DOING?....we did our thing please leave it alone.....i love all you guys and i love to remeber the good times publicly but your getting personall guy and thats OURS and nobody elses.I DONT know about you but i wont share any of that with anyone but another one of us.i dont care if the world ever understands us and they wont.THE kids in this thankless one might but everyone else just wants us to hurry up and die.WE ARE AMERICAS CONSCIENSE and just looking at us makes them feel guilty (THEY HAD BETTER THINGS TO DO ) these are just my thoughts and FEELINGS.......have a great day

    -- Posted by lamont on Sat, Dec 4, 2010, at 2:10 PM
  • DO WHAT YOU GOT TO DO....1962 WAS A LONG TIME AGO AND IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY 4 PLUS OVER THERE WAS ENOUGH FOR ME..........MY BROTHERS ARE AGAIN DYING DAILEY,AND YOU KNOW WHAT THERE STILL WITHOUT PEACE .........TAKE CARE HAVE A GREAT GIG

    -- Posted by lamont on Sat, Dec 4, 2010, at 8:55 PM
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    Lamont, I know you've said before that you won't/don't talk about 'those times" I left it at that, because I really didn't know your own personal reasons why.... I simply respected your right/feelings to NOT discuss what you don't wish to discuss. I sure wish you didn't feel the way that now I see is the reason why you didn't wish to discuss those things. I kind of thought it was because it would be so painful. I'm ashamed that the US as a whole was embarrassed of you guys. As Mike says, You fellas had no choice in what you were told to do/perform/commit. Then along with that, came survival. Who knows what any of us would do "face to face" "Him or me"?

    There are things/reasons I would kill, ... namely family. My babies. My babies are grown and raising their babies, ...they'll all always be my babies, and I would take a bullet, or send a bullet any day for them, without hesitation. Maybe I'd go to jail, maybe not....

    You guys were so young when you were sent there, that likely you didn't have children.... so the U.S. was YOUR baby. You had to do what you had to do for your baby. And if you did have babies back stateside, then you had to do whatever you might previously have thought unfathomable to come home to those babies.

    Again, I"m ashamed of how you were treated with disdain and worse on your return to your homeland. My apologies and wishes for better for you don't make a difference, ...but thank you for your service. Thank God you did return.

    Mike, I read your blogs each time with amazement at what you write so succintly, and I hope others do as well.

    I've often regretted that stories are/were not told by elders. Once that person is gone, those stories are lost forever. Please continue, and know that they are appreciated.

    Jessie

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Dec 6, 2010, at 12:20 PM
  • Viet Nam was the reason my first marriage ended in Divorce. I can remember those times so clearly and how any one wearing a uniform and serving our country were spit upon. I can remember a time when I wore a t-shirt to work that said something like bomb Viet Nam and I was sent home to change it. I still have my first husbands letters he sent me when he was over in Nam.

    My husband Pat who was Navy went over there 3 times and had been wounded during one of those trips, however he went back again.

    He now is a member of the American Legion and was the commander for 2 years in a row,and has been on the Honor Guard for many years. In fact he did a funeral this morning. This is something maybe Bazooka you should get into ..........

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Mon, Dec 6, 2010, at 3:31 PM
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    Mike, I'm listening to everything you have to say/write. I'm totally aware I don't know all of what you have to write about. But i plan to absorb it all. No worries here, I"m just learning, nothing more.

    I am not sure we are 'thinking' along the same path, but I felt/feel this war we're in right now, could have been over a long time ago. But the politicians "can't" do the 'thing' that needs to be done. Seems simple to me, but I"m a simpleton.

    Keep writing

    Jessie

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Dec 6, 2010, at 8:37 PM
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    Mike, I agree with everything you just said. "take him out" I don't get why that never happened. Frankly, I thought it might happen without the Military involvement. Obviously I was wrong, but I thought (naively I guess) that someone super dooper rich guy somewhere, might hire someone and say "-----------"Hey guys, here's who we need to take out. Take care of it, and just call me from time to time and tell mne what you need!"

    I wondered constantly about that. We KNEW WHO/WHERE but it just didn't happen. The lives lost and money wasted is a travesty.

    Speaking of money, there's nothing wrong with helping other countries I guess, but what's wrong with helping more in our own country? We send money and help to 3rd world countries.... but there is so much suffering here. That baffles me.

    Oh, I so don't mean to go into these things.... it's ugly and all. Which is why I do my blog, to lighten things up. I do love this country/county/town U.S.A. that we live in.

    Jessie

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Tue, Dec 7, 2010, at 8:45 AM
  • One of my boy's has orders for Afghanistan next year. He has a wife and 2 little boy's I don't want him to go but we have no choice, he made that decision to join the Military

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, Dec 7, 2010, at 9:07 AM
  • Great Story.......... better then a reality show on tv. You should write a book, who knows it could become a best seller.... Keep it going !

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, Dec 7, 2010, at 7:17 PM
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