The 60's Club...

[WayOutWest]

Our local newspaper is interviewing Viet Nam vets and publishing one about every other day. So good to see someone finally giving some voice to this group of forgotten vets! Lotta guys I know or worked with. Did my time on a destroyer and didn't see Viet Nam.

[TheRednose]

Our local newspaper is interviewing Viet Nam vets and publishing one about every other day. So good to see someone finally giving some voice to this group of forgotten vets! Lotta guys I know or worked with. Did my time on a destroyer and didn't see Viet Nam.

My father fought in Nam, he was a Ranger and LURP. Whats funny is he never talks about the war but when I was little he used to give me all of his medals he won to play with. He was always bitter about how he thought the country treated the Nam vets.

I agree with you wayout good to see they get some positive recognition.

[Reuben]

lots of the Vietnam vets were left as the unforgotten...I knew quite a few that came back and are/were never the same...some drank and/or drugged themselves to death...no telling what they saw or had to deal with in that Jungle...it was a long long war...seems that is all I remember growing up...

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[Georgia-Hawgs]

My grandpa is a Vietnam vet. He went through twice. He won't talk about it much but the story I get from family is he went through twice because his little brother got drafted as infantry. By this time my papa was already pretty high ranking so he pulled some strings and got them to leave his brother at home. His brother is still pretty bitter about that, but as infantry in nam it quite possibly saved his life.

[Fixitlouie]

Vets are still getting hammered. sad.

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[Hog Dog Mike]

I wish I was still in my 60s because I am 71. There is not alternative other than pushing up daises. Things just take a little longer than they used to.

Recently I had my right knee replaced because I was bone on bone. It came from a injury back in 73 to my knee.

I remember my cousins philosophy on life back in 1960. He said that if you could clear 100.00$ per week you had it made in the shade. He was right because a car note was just a little over 50.00$ and a 3 bedroom brick house note was about 85.00$ per month. I bought a Ford Ranger pickup (loaded) in 1972 for 3,652.00. I bought a Ranger bass boat in 1971 for 2,370.95. A Remington 700 BDL 7 mag was 106.00 in 1967 and a Remington 1100 3" mag was 115.00 in 1968. I bought a Ruger single 6 22 in 1962 for 62.00, a Springfield 1911 45 in 80 for 300.00, and a Cold Python in the early 80s for 300.00.

One of the things that I will never forget is when one of my friends came by the house in a 1958 Impala---this was in 1960 and it was like new. I couldn't believe it and asked him how much it cost and he told me 1,800.00. Then I asked him how much his notes were and he told me his dad paid cash for it. I took off running to the house and told my mother "you are not going to believe this--Mr. Clyde paid cash for Don's car". I was as surprised if WW3 started. I simply could not comprehend the idea that somebody had enough money to pay cash for a car.

[Reuben]

I wish I was still in my 60s because I am 71. There is not alternative other than pushing up daises. Things just take a little longer than they used to.

Recently I had my right knee replaced because I was bone on bone. It came from a injury back in 73 to my knee.

I remember my cousins philosophy on life back in 1960. He said that if you could clear 100.00$ per week you had it made in the shade. He was right because a car note was just a little over 50.00$ and a 3 bedroom brick house note was about 85.00$ per month. I bought a Ford Ranger pickup (loaded) in 1972 for 3,652.00. I bought a Ranger bass boat in 1971 for 2,370.95. A Remington 700 BDL 7 mag was 106.00 in 1967 and a Remington 1100 3" mag was 115.00 in 1968. I bought a Ruger single 6 22 in 1962 for 62.00, a Springfield 1911 45 in 80 for 300.00, and a Cold Python in the early 80s for 300.00.

One of the things that I will never forget is when one of my friends came by the house in a 1958 Impala---this was in 1960 and it was like new. I couldn't believe it and asked him how much it cost and he told me 1,800.00. Then I asked him how much his notes were and he told me his dad paid cash for it. I took off running to the house and told my mother "you are not going to believe this--Mr. Clyde paid cash for Don's car". I was as surprised if WW3 started. I simply could not comprehend the idea that somebody had enough money to pay cash for a car.

picking cotton in the mid 1960's paid 1 dollar a hundred pounds...took me all day to pick a hundred pounds if I were getting paid...but I worked for my dad so I didn't get paid...