Respect!

This is hands down the best comment I've ever seen, glad your dad is such a good man.

Wow, great words sir. Huge respect to your old man he clearly did a great job

I'm glad you had a great father and role model, my father was an Air Force veteran, during the Korean War; he taught me similar values and I'm thankful. Kids need a father, need both parents to be a whole, decent person...

Powerful! Salute 💪🏾👊🏾

Who's the pitcher in your profile...i remember reading about but its been waaayyy ago

Yep. The real enemy is the upper class

Trump…no show Biden…no show

Right when the hell is the last time you really have seen someone in public be racist and I mean real racist never i'm 43 and last time i seen a person be racist is in the early 90's when i was a teen...@@DazedAlligator

And I live In florida lmfao you would think i see it on a daily basis but nope just respect for each other in these small southern towns man that shit is over....

Same here. I immediately thought of his wife and child. Sad US story.

Does anyone know Joe's last name?

More info about joe please

A hero, like all those who served in this war. Thanks to him for his service.

Is your dad getting treatment/support of any kind?

@@manweller1 He gets treatment. But since his last buddy died he's been acting out alot.

@@HeavilyCensoredKittyWhat a horrible thing to say!

@@HeavilyCensoredKitty He likes to drink Paul.. But the drinking makes it worse than before bc he gets to shooting up his shed he built in his backyard . Fighting demons fr

Respect.

Country’s don’t demean people. People demean people. Those that did that are the truly small men. There is nothing braver than putting you life on the line. Lest we forget

@@australianmade2659 Of course yes but it's not like we can dismiss them..

i didnt know that black people could acces such high ranking ! at the time i mean

@@returrnfire9634 Why don't you have a good look imto it and find out for yourself, it's at your fingertips, best wishes 🙏

I'm a Marine veteran. My Dad served in Vietnam with the Army. I thank your father for his service.

Mine to and talking about what he saw and went through is the only time I saw my father cry

it's beautiful to realize that when he's still around. he's a living treasure box of stories, I don't think I properly appreciated the service of mine until after it was too late

@@DavidJ222 You stay safe soilder, God bless you and your father and I thank you both for also fighting for our freedom as well...

@@LethalBubbles man I called him today, just to tell him how greatful I am for all he has ever done...we have had our differences in the past, but he is still my dad and I show him the upmost respect....he sent me a few pictures today when he first got back, and just watching this doc as a 33 year old man now makes me truly realize why he was so tuff and didn't take any shit....

It really was... movies can't express what they endured. My father once said that the survivors died several times on behalf of their brothers.

It's a time you wish to forget, not remember. I'm 75 now and have fought it all my life. Coming here on youtube and getting some it off my chest has been a huge help. I'm able to express things that only other combat vets would understand.

Ur a trumpet. I wouldn't tell you anything either. Hes a smart man.

@@felixmadison5736 I am 75, I was 1st Cav (Air) '69 - '70 - Not much chat about the "homecoming" we received on a number of fronts back then ... i.e. the VA. The Korean Roc soldiers did [mandatory] 3 year tours(!) and the South Korean gov't collected a portion of their pay!!! 10 - 4

@@nameskhar1510Welcome home brother!

Yeah good thing they were over there in the Jungle keeping us safe here. Why are you thanking the veterans? What exactly did they do? Right now they are contributing to our 30 Trillion dollar deficit, US tax payers are still paying for it, what exactly are you thanking them for, we didn't even win the war? I was named after a cousin that died there, should I be thankful he died? He died because his country sent him a letter in the mail, forced him to join, sent him to the other side of the world and had him murdered. What exactly are you thanking them for? Because you were programmed by the murderers to thank the victims that survived?

Hmmm I think all Vet's see the War from the same perspective ? time and again I've heard these Vet's say , there was no discrimination in a fox hole when Charlie was trying to kill you both , the Band of Brothers knew NO COLOR those day's ! And when it was over the Brother's would say " AIN'T NUFFAN BUT A THANG ! Thank God Bubba & Gump were there !

"black veterans" 🤣 dont worry bro whites are still 99% war dead but you guys did your part 🤣

Yeah good thing they defended their country against the Americans and it still stands today.

When I was 16 I left for the military and it was a mess at the airport. I asked them to see me off from home they promised me they wasn't going to cry and my girlfriend started it all.

The grunt that wore 23 VC ears around his neck is my hero. 🇨🇦✊🏻

​@@juicyj3819the VC were actually the good guys in that war

@@BarackLesnar 🙄

@@juicyj3819 its true

That would be amazing if they made a cinematic movie about that, what a story, two Vietnam troops one white and one black grown to love each other as pow's then cry when they get separated is real special story..

This documentary was wrong, the first integrated war was the Korean War, and my grandpa served in foxholes with blacks, in Korea. I hate so much how that war is truly forgotten.

@@saucejohnson9862THEY MEAN FULLY INTERGRATED. MY BLACK GRANDFATHERS, BOTH WERE IN USMC IN THE PACIFIC IN WW2.

​@@saucejohnson9862 179,000 black soldiers served in the Union Arm during the Civil War. 10 %

My grandfather was 15 when he went up Korea

@@terryg995 Fully integrated, meaning if you lived on a military base in the 1940's, blacks/whites swam in the same pool without changing the water, black/white kids went to the same school, black/whites drank at the same fountain, black/whites were in the same foxhole in the Korean War.

I read about him in the 80s when I read Bloods. When did he pass away? Sorry for your loss.

Much respect to your father for his service. So calm in his storytelling especially from what he experienced. Tremendous admiration. 🫡

As I'm watching this documentary, he is the man I wanted to meet out of this whole thing. I can't explain why, it was just his...integrity...that stuck out to me. I'm so very sorry we lost a true American hero. I hope along with your sadness, you also feel a great amount of pride.

What a G

Thank you Gene for your service, that man is a real hero. As are the men profiled in the video. The Vets who made it home. Respect.

Stop exaggerating, it wasn't WWII. I don't think enough troops were in Vietnam for "entire neighborhoods of teenagers" to be wiped out.

And where were you?

@@soldierofmisfortune6284 No it was worst than ww2. No where near the same kind of war. US govmnt was killing their own soldiers. READ A BOOK WATCH A FILM OR SHUT TF UP

IT also lasted ten years u do the math

Imagine the 1st world war.. There was literally towns without men at able body age. WW2 was essentially the civilians war, since so many civilians died

I am a white English man and I would have been proud to share a hut and to have fought by their side..These are the true heroes..

Sorry your father had to endure that.

Amen to that, family!

Perfectly said. May he rest in paradise, and thank you for sharing that !

Thank you for your fathers sacrifice to our country! He’s a hero.

Cooooold bloooooded😂

Where was your dad raised?

"Democratic process" Stalin took over half of Korea after WW2. Japan had colonized Korea prior to WW2, changed the name of the nation to "Cho-sen". Japan also forced Koreans to change their own names! China suffered a horrible invasion by Japan, with public rapes, and contests by IJA soldiers who could chop off 100 Chinese heads the fastest. In both cases, the world failed to intercede before matters became so horrible. Imperial Japan was murderous across Asia, in Philippines, and Oceania. When Hawaii was attacked, this finally "woke the sleeping giant (USA)" As a young man, I personally spoke with Pacific Islander Natives who suffered as small children during Japanese Army occupation years. Japanese tortured POW's and forced Civilian prisoners into harsh labor for war projects. China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government. USA tried to get South Vietnamese to repel the Viet Cong, but Soviet Russian & Chinese strategists created a nightmare against traditional warfare. USA was wrong to let itself get into the quicksand. Rich kids, college kids did not go to Vietnam, except for Al Gore as an Army photographer. Poor Johnny Reb Dixie boys went, and inner-city teens, Puertoricans, and I met Mexicans that got green cards for fighting in Nam. I was born overseas, we are Celtics. We had to learn about US Civil War, and the very obvious radiation effect of Southern Racism. We found out that US Armies had been segregated since the Civil War, until 1948 when Harry S Truman ordered integration. And I also talked with a Black American "Stanley" who told me they had huge card games in Nam, and some soldiers were shot in the back over debts during fighting against V.C. I was on Island of Guam where 50,000 Vietnamese Refugees were housed after Saigon fell. There was a new secret psych ward where some military members were "housed", detoxed of drugs, until it was safe for the long flight to Stateside US. We were never told about "race riots" on the USS Kitty Hawk, and USS Sumter, the riots spurred violence on other Navy ships, notably the carrier Constellation and the fleet oiler Hassayampa, among others. The unrest in the Navy caught the attention of Congress, and by the end of 1972 it held hearings looking into the incidents. US Congress blamed US Navy of "permissiveness". The violence, which all began with a drunken brawl one night in a Subic Bay, Philippines bar, had left feelings of mistrust. I saw examples, on the Navy base, where the Dixie sailors often planted Confederate battle flags in front of their base housing. In the big Rec Hall / Snack Grill in Barracks #20, the "country boys" would bump into the jukebox to reject a Soul Music song from playing. But I never saw a fist fight in public. In the 90's the US Navy had Bloods & Crips getting into confrontations. Gang members were seen flashing hand signs at each other.

Amen, brother. Knowledge is power.

May your brother Rest In Peace. May I ask how old and when he passed?

@@BCMoney1995 He passed away in July 2021, at the age of 71. He was a good man and a true American patriot who believed in his country, despite his hardships. We were complete opposites, yet I respect his convictions

@@iwant2usethis Thank you for sharing, may he Rest In Peace and we appreciate his service and sacrifice.

WTF ....."your people." Get a life. News people and people like you are the problem with this country today.

If you ever see a “Vietnam veteran” hat on a black guy you make sure you tell him welcome home. All veterans deserve the basic respects but those jungle warriors deserve a fucking hug.

😂😂😂😂😂 cry cry cry. Fuck don't u people get tired if being professional victims

They weren’t forced dumbass they enlisted

The MAGA-tards will tell you this is fake.

My avatar picture is his last DA photo before he retired.

@@user-ks7lb8xj9e don't be 'sorry.' My father, maternal grandfather, and two older brothers fought and served in nearly every major military conflict in the twentieth century, so you can openly state your opinion without the threat of censorship, retaliation, or death. My maternal grandmother and maternal grand-aunt built the planes that brought the willful participants of global Euro-Pasific Fasicm [Nazis/Imperiialism] to their 'effin knees (I always love typing that). While simultaneously paving the way for women of color and women, in general, to receive equal opportunities in the modern workforce and equal rights in society. Both ladies were among the first African-Americans in their rural community to openly support the fledgling Civil Rights movement that picked up momentum at the end of WW2. This fostered the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Culminating in the Equal Rights Amendment and other laws that guaranteed their right to be recognized as human beings and take their lives into their own hands. Something their parents and grandparents could only dream of. They did this at a time when the threat of sexual assault (if not lynching) was always a concern not just for being women, but when you add 'colored' and or 'Ingun' to the mix-well one would have to be crazy to put one's self in that kind of danger. Or maybe they were just tired, fed-up, and frustrated. I call them brave. My mother, who was inspired by her parent's examples of courage in the face of Jim Crow (anti-African American codes) and anti-Indigenous bias (forced segregation of Native American reservations), became one of the first persons of color to host her own local TV program on a major network affiliate in the late 1960s Tulsa, OK. Yeah, home of the Tulsa Massacre. Wanna guess how many death threats she and her Caucasian colleagues received day end and day out for nearly five years, nearly forty years after the massacre? I got news for you, some of the murderers who destroyed my community were still alive then. It gives me a warm fuzzy knowing she smiled in their face every time they turned on their TVs. By the way, she was pregnant with me at the time. If that wasn't enough, she was constantly praying my father wouldn't die in 'Nam, be captured by the enemy, be 'fragged' by some disgruntled soldier, or be beaten by a group of so-called 'non-violent' hippies when he wore his uniform. Lucky for them they never tried it, no matter what color they were. In no way have I ever had their kind of courage, but I will honor those who paved the way before me. Every man, women and child, who were kidnapped, tortured, violated, maimed, and lynched. They fought for my freedom in the only way they could. Right or wrong, they struggled, so I didn't have to. So don't apologize for being sorry; it is self-evident

In-depth document at it’s finest. Letting the interviewer respond. Questions that dive into introspection of their experiences. Letting them respond freely without rebuttal

Still going through😢

For ALL That They Gave -

They deserved all they went through and more. Invading an innocent country. Killing innocent people.

you're thanking them like they did anything for the rest of us. they never should have been through that shit in the first place.

They killed farmers and children. These soldiers are sure rotten in deepest hell hole.

Heroes for what? Killing and maimim vietnamese who didn't even what this fight to Begin with?? No heroes here just cowards. Mohamed Ali who refused to be drafted for this war was the hero

A lot of them where drafted

you gotta win inf you wanna be a hero

What did you win 🏆 with one arm tie behind your back you wouldn't know a hero if it was written on them coward

Rip to him and god bless him

Thank you sir

Your father came back just like mines.

I'm so sorry, your story made me so sad and the racism they endured. Shameful!

@rasheed7934 came back physical ,but mentally he was left back in veitnam.

Never been to the wall, but I've seen the blasted and shot up churches and pagodas in the Central Highlands, the cratered paddy fields and the desolate, silent infertile wastelands around Hue in Vietnam. Had a similar effect on me. War is ugly and repellent.

@@johntaylorson7769fucking sucks that we’re all just people still murdering each other. I guess that old shit I used to hear “one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist” leads us to understating that if we believe in our ideals and principles so strongly we feel we have to slay our opposition to get our point across we’re usually losing another battle.

@@cheezburgrproduction Yea because killing all those Nazis was a real tragedy. 😂 You do understand the Vietcong killed on average 10 to 1 civilians in the war right? You actually think youre in some kind of brotherhood with the guys who fought in the Vietcong or the NVA? You understand they used to murder and kill people without remorse right? What the Vietcong did at Hue was no different than what the Nazis did at any number of killing sites. Just remember the entire "home grown" opposition was being backed by China and Russia and their leader was an educated commie from France. So much for back wood farmers defending their rice paddies.

I think hero is an exaggeration. The veterans of WW2 were heroic, but there was nothing heroic about this war, it was horrible and shouldn't have taken place anyway.

​@@rjayyyy9623No war should have taken place.

Why are you thanking them for their service? Thank you for going to Vietnam and killing people in a civil war that had nothing to do with them? Thank you for being lied to and conned by your lying treacherous government? Thank you for your friends dying for nothing? How did the Vietnam War defend America and freedom? I live in south east Asia, your government lied and sent boys to die, poison the land, kill the people and turn our daughters into prostitutes creating a sex industrythat flourish to this day. I feel real sorry for Vietnam vets because they were lied to then betrayed when they hot home. Thanking them for their service is betraying them again, it's like saying thank you for being a good slave and going to fight in another country you know nothing about on behalf of rich white men who got a whole lot richer from the war.

What are you talking about blacks are the most racist people in America, they absolutely hate Mexicans and Asians straight up and are very tribal. I dont feel any affinity toward any white man simply because he is white, I live in a civilized nation and we are taught that race really isnt a defining characteristic but blacks do see it as that. They see stock in being black and will naturally have an affinity towards blacks simply for being black. It really is a very tribalized culture in the movie "dont be a menace to society" Lawrence Fishburnes character in the beginning is upset about shooting at a black man entering his house, he doesnt want to kill just "another brotha" Imagine being so brainwashed that you think the guy breaking into your house and trying to endanger your son's life is a "brotha" These people are brainwashed a fukk

Well said James!!

I saw this program when it first aired and I remember that man, speaking of his white friend, Joe. "I will not forget Joe" he said with real conviction.

@@57highland I really don1t have a clue how I would react to being drafted as a black man. I know this though; if my parents had to sit at the back of the bus and use "colored only" facilities, I would be an extremely angry young man.

What about the civil war back in the 1800’s?

Unfortunately all military units were segregated until 1948. President Truman changed that when he signed a law stopping the practice. African Americans fought in every war we have had.

Thank you , my uncles from Detroit went to Nam and man they had stories when they came back home. As a child I could feel their stress and PTSD, without even knowing what that meant at the time.

@@worldwide7657 I bet...Ive known a lot of Nam vets through the years and it seems like most all of them had problems, addiction or otherwise. Damn shame...all solid men but most separated from their families...

Facts. The black men in my family fought in every single American war for this country.

Stop portraying "the black man" as a separate group. For me skin color is absolutely unimportant and irrelevant.

@ lucabaki You’re missing the point completely. They were an enslaved people in that country who have gone on the to freedom then protect that same country that they helped build. That is a remarkable history indeed.

@@HdHd-hp6qzAgreed, I respect black Americans for volunteering to fight in a war while representing a country that once discriminated them. Modern *AND* past.

notice when it is something positive about Black they don't want to see skin @@lucabaki

Thank you…this is one on those nights I won’t be getting much sleep

Facts

@@slowpoke96Z28 This is America and every is entitled to their opinion but I can guarantee you dont know jack shite "facts" what facts? that blacks are under represented in the war dead? You do understand that 99% of all American war dead are white men right? Its like not even close who gave more. 🤣

Tell them “Welcome Home” It’s such an honor to see their response when I tell them this.

Thank you for what service?? I dont remember vietnam attacking California... not to mention they went there to protect these people not kill milions of unarmed civilians

​@@1DEADBEEF1war is never pretty evil on both sides

@Walter-white891 how many millions of american civilians did vietnam or japan killed?? Do you see american children being born today choribly deformed from millions of tonnes of chemical agents dropped on United States by vietnamese airforce??

They had it easy compared to the black WW2 GIs

It's the money interests and wealth acquisition that keeps on driving the war machine.

OH man you are so smart, God that is genius observation you must read a lot about war and religion and important books Clown.

@Person0fColor Probably smart enough to debate a topic without the need to resort to insults. Something which you, demonstrably, are having difficulty in achieving. You should work on it. Insulting complete strangers, even online, is rarely a good idea.

Yeah, I do. Fighting someone else's war is unambiguously fucking dumb. Break the cycle! Reject this *hideously flawed* concept of patriotism, and tell the government to go fight their own wars.

@@leoarc1061 you don’t know shite about anything you’re the kind of guy who reads “art of war” and thinks you’re deep. You read “all quiet on the western front” and think you’re well read

what service? seems like you guys just lose wars these days

@@joeyjoejoe314 brother we haven't won a war since Korea

@@johnnydeagal4400 well even that, korea was kinda a draw. I won't argue about korea further. The main point is, we don't know how to win a guerilla war, and we need to stop getting in those wars.

@@johnnydeagal4400 Desert Storm and Earnest Will (the larger Navy operation that includes operation Praying Mantis)

God Bless

An old warrior 💯

Amen🙏🏾

Or the heinous acts they committed on kids and civilians.

@@BadChad52 very true both sides to it ..I read about My Lai that was horrible prayers to all

@@boywonda3 have you read about the CIA Phoenix project in Vietnam or the cointel pro operations

Those animals were all on drugs and killed American Officers.

Being from Baltimore, I still remember Gene Woodley’s story. His nicknames were “Cyclops” and “Montagnard Man.” He said that when he came home, even his mother was afraid of him. This was (is) a great book! I don’t know where my copy went…

@tonyjones1560 Yes, I remember too. If you loaned the book out, you probably didn't get it back. Same happened to me twice with the Gran Torino DVD. After repurchasing it twice, I no longer loan out DVDs, or books.

@@barto4678 I was in college, so I might have been straight up ripped off during a keg party, LOL. That’s how my copies of classic albums “Second Winter” by Johnny Winter (RIP🙏🏾) and “Blow By Blow” by Jeff Beck (RIP🙏🏾) got away from me…

@@tonyjones1560 Yes, that is possible. I didn't make it to college, but I had the keg parties, lol

@@barto4678 I went to small, majority white school that didn’t have any fraternities or sororities. We did, however, have a rugby team that threw some absolutely AWESOME parties. We’re talking some “Weekend At Bernie’s” 1980s teen movie stuff and it really was the 1980s. Crazy stuff…!

More like im sorry you were forced to serve then tossed aside when you survived with multiple baggages including but not limited to ptsd Yup great country america and great great noble wars you wage and fantastic veterans services you have for survivors thanks for your service gentleman my southeast asian ass

​@@g_y.rtz420ya and then Americans calls the Russians "evil" bunch of hypocrites

@@g_y.rtz420Get a job bozo

I'm sorry to hear that, sir. But we still appreciate your service. Welcome home....

Remember he would've killed you and your squad mates given the chance. That's what I hang on to.

Welcome home sir

Thanks for your service

Terrible way to think, Id be perfect for the service.

I have it in my collection

Brought to us courtesy of the murdering DNC

They were spit on for a reason. They committed numerous atrocities in an unjustified war. Somehow back then Americans were more informed about the politics of war than we are now.

so sorry that you did not know. many bad things did happen in all wars regarding race etc. many mexican americans got evil thrust upon them in Korea.we are all humannnnnnn

I met of the men who served with my father at his funeral. They were more than brothers... they were the sentry of his soul. They shed tears of blood and iron. I went to several of their funerals to share my love and respect for men who loved my father. Semper Fi 🙏🏾

Agreed. What a generation. Stand up guys. I love the forthrightness and lack of political correctness.

I feel sorry for them that they had to go threw this mess of a war

Hell yea, be proud of their ability to massacre children women and framers.

so horrible what our country did to them. Not only to send them off to die in the jungle but the way they were treated when they came home.

Lucky U

Get back in touch. You'll both be glad you did. Never too late, never.

I was just thinking the same thing. If the community can get back to having a mother and father in the house and be raised to be polite, eradicate the gangs and that garbage rap music, you would see huge changes in the community

​@@mineonlyhoovesWe reside in various communities that aren't all the same. Violence and ignorance has been around way before there was any genre of rap music to begin with.

Old white people talkin bout shit they don’t have the first clue about

@@rgw1380rw I believe that a lot of it comes from a broken home, or in lack of a better terms a home without a father, mother or both and not just in black communities. I will say it doesn’t help when you have a culture of music that preaches to kill, steal, and do drugs. Especially now days when everything is custom to instant gratification and the idea of doing whatever it takes to get “rich” instead of things like learning honest trades that do in fact pay great money. It’s very sad because these are the types of things that “target” our youth. Just like how the military recruits young because these kids simply don’t know any better.

​@@mineonlyhoovesit's funny to me how you people work

This is among the very best of Frontline documentaries-- and Judy W-- is a lovely young woman-- it's great to see that in 2021-- she's still a news journalist on PBS- imagine that! 🌈

Dead 2 self. That's a believer's screen name if I ever saw one.

@@SquadJuiced Christ is Lord .

Built on morals! You can make me laugh with that one again.

Any African American who went TO VIETNAM WAS A FOOL.. WHY? DO YOUR RESEARCH HITS: GENOCIDE SLAVERY LYNCHING SEGREGATION RED LINING WHITE SUPREMACY KKK ALL WHITE LAWS

I respect the people who don't involve themself in the colonizer's problems and wars. That should have ended with obama.

​@@lawrencemorris2261every race played roles in colonization

Same here. Upmost respect to all Vietnam veterans

Express your viewpoint to ALL Republicans especially those voted for draft-dodger Trump and wear MAGA paraphernalia, and you will get a rude awakening as to which political party that the majority population affiliates themselves with is due to its agenda policy and practices of "EXCLUSION." AND IT A'INT DEMOCRATS!

Had no idea what it was about, but ended up watching twice as not to miss anything. I have it saved and will keep watching it as a reminder

Good thing they drove the Americans out :D

God bless you for your service sir.

Thanks for your service

Blech. Utterly self-serving comment.

Jesus Christ loves you and cares. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3v16-18 This page really has helped me tremendously in getting closer to the Lord Jesus Christ and walk upright before Him. youtube.com/@LivingWaters?si=pRoBPXMcTNhQht_Q

The Vietnam War finished in April 1975.

And some were almost 50 by the end of the decade ( the 80's ).

@@jovicatrpcevski209 Yes. Those were the guys that went to Nam really before it became front page news

@@timburr4453 Yep.

Rayfield is such a cool name, lol.