Vietnam Voices: 'I Guess When Youre 18, 19 Years Old, You Think Its Going To Be The Other Guy'

Vietnam Voices: 'I guess when you’re 18, 19 years old, you think it’s going to be the other guy'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'That was probably the scariest part of my life'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'I thought, Oh, this is not good'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'By the grace of God, you're not on the Vietnam War Memorial'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'People out there want to kill me. They don't even know me'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'Oh Lord, what have I gotten myself into?'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'You're always listening. That's one sound you'll never forget — the incoming'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'Yeah, Charlie's 18 or 20 inches tall — they're crawling in'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'You're alert all the time. If you're not alert, you're going to die'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'Them ain't fireflies'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'We had our war for a day'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: "And now I look back, 'Why didn't it bother me?'"

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'I don't think I was destined to come back from there fully intact'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'You do what you have to do'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'Sometimes it was mayhem, but it was controlled mayhem'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'Most of us thought we'd be home in six months'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'I kind of thought of it as my obligation'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'I didn't know that in Vietnam, nobody was safe'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'We had incoming rounds virtually every day, incoming rockets or mortars'

Billings Gazette

Vietnam Voices: 'You knew what fear was. But then, you got hard toward it'

Billings Gazette