Stories about my Dad in Vietnam... (long, but worth it)

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  • Koosh
    I'm No Longer On Fire
    • Mar 2002
    • 1710
    #1

    Stories about my Dad in Vietnam... (long, but worth it)

    http://www.aaftankmuseum.com/Archive4M42A1.htm
    Hey Zero, how much did that Chipley cost ya?

    Originally said by Boggerman When I got married I thought it would go down too... The insurance, not the wife.

    FRUITCAT!!
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    • Halliday
      Level 10
      • Oct 2000
      • 1655
      #2
      Yes, write a book with all the funny, sad, terrible and heroic things that happened.


      Super Moderator at Pbreview.com

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        • SpecialBlend2786
          Registered User
          • Jun 2003
          • 4023
          #3
          Originally posted by Halliday
          Yes, write a book with all the funny, sad, terrible and heroic things that happened.
          he really should

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            • HoppysMag
              Hoppy's en Fuego!!!
              • Oct 2001
              • 3494
              #4
              hey man i dont think anyone thinks anyless of your father for anything he did.


              i like the story about willie punching him in the face!
              "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -John Morley

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                • Load SM5
                  Scruffy Administrator

                  • Oct 2000
                  • 6772
                  #5
                  whew

                  After reading all that I gotta say, Thank God for him there really were'nt any imbedded reporters back then.


                  Moorewatch

                  If you read this, thank a teacher.
                  If you read this in English, thank a soldier.

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                    • Chris42050
                      Splatmaster Tech
                      • Feb 2004
                      • 567
                      #6
                      Should he write a book. Absolutely. I don't know how good a writer he is but he might need a co-writer or something. Someone with experience. Those stories were so interesting and he was unbeleivably honest. It sounds like he didn't sugar coat a thing.

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                        • TheFlamingKoosh
                          I'm No Longer On Fire
                          • Mar 2002
                          • 1710
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Chris42050
                          Should he write a book. Absolutely. I don't know how good a writer he is but he might need a co-writer or something. Someone with experience. Those stories were so interesting and he was unbeleivably honest. It sounds like he didn't sugar coat a thing.
                          He didn't sugarcoat a thing, but I did...

                          One complete story, and all the four letter words and racial referances a tad bit too... ummm... "insensitive" for AO...
                          Hey Zero, how much did that Chipley cost ya?

                          Originally said by Boggerman When I got married I thought it would go down too... The insurance, not the wife.

                          FRUITCAT!!

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                            • punkncat
                              One foot less
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 5841
                              #8
                              A good friend of the family was a "tank gunner" in Vietnam. I am not sure of the the name of the position he was in , but he was the one sticking out the top of the tank shooting a gun and directing the actual driver.

                              He used to carry around a camera with him and snap shots of the after effects of them showing up on scene. He had a pic of one guy who had run up on the barrel of the tank just as it fired. Cleaved his skull neatly in two right at the forehead. Many other pictures and stories that were quite gruesome.

                              His tour was ended when the tank he was in was hit right on the front armor plate by a bazooka round. The explosion sucked him out of the hatch and threw him about 50 feet behind the tank. The force of the explosion completly removed all the tissue from his face , forehead , and front of his scalp. He now wears a mask something similar to the invisible man as his face was damaged too much to reconstruct.

                              The stories he can tell can give nightmares to people who weren't even there.

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