by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 1, 2025 | Author, Blog, Days of Peace and War, Vietnam
Vietnam: New Year’s Eve in 1969, our platoon was out in the “boonies,” waiting in ambush for the Viet Cong (VC) to move at night, since they didn’t recognize New Year’s Eve as we do. I was on guard, and since it was the dry season and Vietnam in the...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 23, 2018 | Blog, Vietnam
This holiday season the wars in Syria and Afghanistan are much in the news, yet to us at home, war seems a long way off. In many ways it is, yet for veterans, its memories still live close by. This Christmas Eve is a case in point. Forty nine years ago, I was...