At this very moment by brother-in-law is on a two week tour of Vietnam
with 1/2 dozen war buddies. He's in Can Tho today (in the Mekong Delta)
and will be back in Saigon tomorrow. They'll be hopping all around the
country before it's over.
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
> No. I've given it a few moments thought from time to time. Some very
> good memories of that place, considering what we were about and all.
> <g> Maybe some day. I'd like to see what's become of Hue, and the
> country out toward the A Shau Valley. But I think I'd get in a lot of
> trouble in Saigon, which I refuse to call by it's currently
> politically correct name. <Sigh> But then somewhere not long ago I
> read that our enemies of yesterday have more in common with us than
> our own youth of today, or some such. I wouldn't mind having a few
> beers with some of the fellows who were trying to kill me, and I
> them. Might be good for the soul. Interesting, fer'sure.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
>
>> Did you ever return to Vietnam
>
>
> OT, for those still reading. Back in '02 we had a little reunion here
> in Maine of some of the guys I served with over there. Six of us
> showed up, and we had a pretty good time. One of them had some t-
> shirts made with MACV patches on the chest and a map of Vietnam on
> the back, with a big star at Phu Bai. The Saturday of the reunion, we
> all clambered aboard the Hardy Boat III in New Harbor for the trip
> out to Monhegan Island. One of our number, the only unmarried one,
> was sitting next to me when approached by an attractive woman
> somewhat but not too much younger than us. They struck up a
> conversation. I was working very hard not to listen in, in case our
> unaccompanied brother was angling to become accompanied.
>
> So we got off the boat at Monhegan, the woman went on her way, and
> the rest of us started teasing Rex about his failed attempt to get
> himself a woman for the weekend. He looked at us with an expression
> of disdain only Rex is capable of, and said, "Do you know who that was?"
>
> A few jeers later and he drew himself up to full height. "That," he
> said, "Was Gen. William Westmoreland's daughter."
>
> More jeers.
>
> But he convinced us it was true. She saw our t-shirts and approached
> the closest one of us to talk. Her question was whether we'd got back
> together to work through hidden problems from our war years. He told
> her as best he could tell, none of us had any of those, that we'd got
> together to drink beer and eat lobster and wander around the Midcoast
> of Maine wearing silly t-shirts. (Even the wives had them.) Freaking
> Westy's daughter! Imagine that.
>
>
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