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How was this for a July 4th memory- 1970?
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Jul 4, 2024, 7:33 AM
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Could let you think this really happened but I don’t think it did. Military records from those days were quite often inaccurate. Straight from the unit history. I was part of B Company ,
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Jul 4, 2024, 7:42 AM
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Were you the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B?
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Jul 4, 2024, 7:43 AM
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I was never even able to boogie!
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Jul 4, 2024, 8:36 AM
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I bet you were mostly the wiggle wobble gentleman of company A
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Re: How was this for a July 4th memory- 1970?
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Jul 4, 2024, 8:38 AM
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Wobbley is closer to it.
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The best explanation I ever heard about our efforts in Viet Nam was that it was
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Jul 4, 2024, 8:29 AM
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all an exercise in futility. We sent all you brave boys over there to fight and die, just to prove to the Communists that America was morally bankrupt enough to drop another Atomic Bomb on somebody.
https://youtu.be/Qjzjhl-QztE
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Jul 4, 2024, 9:14 AM
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I see it as all those soldiers that were sleeping in on their ships at Pearl Harbor in no way shape or form deserved to be surprised attacked by being torpedoed and bombed while asleep in their racks on a Sunday morning December 7th, 1941. IMO the Japs got off easy, several more atomic bombs should have been dropped on them in every major city of Imperial Japan. Honestly, I've never lost a second of sleep over thinking about the destruction those 2 atomic bombs done to the people of Japan bc the Japanese government got exactly what they ask by all the planning they put into their attempt to destroy the American Pacific Fleet and with all the American soldiers that were at a dream duty station in Hawaii. I absolutely feel that an atom bomb should have been made and dropped on every major city of Japan.
I would bet that when the Japanese people in Japan heard about what their military done at Pearl Harbor, and the 3000 men and women they destroyed with most still in their racks asleep being killed by fire, drowning, or machinegunned in the water, I bet there was no sleep lost by their people, and I've never lost a wink from the thoughts I've had of how America retaliated, it should have been worse than it was!!!
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Jul 4, 2024, 3:26 PM
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Have read a couple estimates an invasion of the Home Islands would've cost more than a million US casualties and upwards of two million Japanese. They were training anyone who could carry a weapon to resist, including women and non adults. Can only imagine what would've happened to the politicians if the invasion had occurred and then the American people found out there was a weapon that could've ended the war quickly. Believe it would've been physically brutal.
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Jul 4, 2024, 8:36 AM
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Thank you clover65
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Americal Division ..... explains why you were left from Tam Ky, I guess on your fateful mission. As I mentioned in an earlier post, my unit, the Marine 9th Engineer Battalion, supported the Americal Division and I would have been there just before you left, as we had already moved to DaNang.
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