Although I wasn’t in the thick of the battle zone in Viet Nam I still served my country and I went when my country said “GO”.
Several years after I was back home my wife had a job for a large national retailer in their home office in downtown St Louis Missouri . This company went bankrupt and a few years later some of the employees got together for a reunion . I was talking to one of the ladies husband’s when he said “ I don’t know what you were doing in the 60’s but I was at Woodstock protesting the war .“ I almost came unglued . He just laughed along like every one did it . I just turned away and left him alone . I thought “ Too much water has went under the bridge , and there is no sense in stirring any thing up “ Needless to say that was a short evening for us . We never went to another reunion either .
When my wife first met me she ask me what my experiences in Viet Nam was like . ( The reason she wanted to know was , Her first husband was 101st Air Borne Hamburger Hill Veteran . She used to wake up with him on top choking her and she didn’t want to go through that again ) I started telling her about how the frogs invaded our camp and how I used to kill the frogs . She was sort amused and thought to herself “ if that’s all I have to put up with I can handle it “ We were married three weeks later and I’ve never choked her but she has had to rescue me a few times from some frogs .