VIETNAM
Life has a special flavor to those who fight for it,
that the sheltered never know.
    By an anonymous Marine in Vietnam after the seventy-seven day siege of Khe Sanh
Vietnam statistics: 13,067 Marines Killed in Action, 88,633 Wounded.


THE WALL (Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.)

FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY, THESE FINE

AMERICAN HEROES GAVE IT ALL.

 

 
Roy McIntyre and Don Greene (short sleeve)
on Tien Doa Hill (O.P. 10) in 1966.
Richard Ahern and Lt. O'Conner
at Christmas Island, Vietnam


 Death before Dishonor.

Nicholas Ventrilla and Bascombe Hughes
near Da Nang in 1968.


Bascombe Hughes near the base of
Marble Mountain, south of Da Nang in 1968.

 

There is “No Better Friend or No Worse Enemy” than a U.S. Marine.
 

Marine Major General J.N. Mattis

Sulie Bourque on a troop transport
ship headed for Vietnam - 1966, 1st tour


Sulie Bourque south of
Chu Lai - 1970, 2nd tour

 

God and the Soldier we Adore,

In time of Danger, Not before!

The danger Passed, and all things Righted,

God is Forgotten and the Soldier Slighted.

 

Charles L. Blevins

 
John Darby (top left) on recon patrol near Monkey Mountain - 1969.

 

ADDITIONAL VIETNAM PHOTOS

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