Hello all,
I’ve recently completed my latest project – A video titled “Boots on the Ground“. It’s only 6 1/2 minutes long and comprised of pictures taken during the Vietnam War and synchronized to music. I think you’ll really like it! You can either view it directly on youtube, or for your convenience, watch it below. Looking forward to your feedback!
WARNING: SOME PICTURES ARE VERY GRAPHIC – PARENTAL GUIDANCE IS REQUIRED!
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Brought back all the memories, especially the “WHOP<WHOP. I served as an FO in the First CAV the calendar year of 1967. Thanks for a great project. Welcome home brothers.
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I think it’s AWESOME. I feel that the SOLDIERS that served in the Vietnam Era don’t get the recognition they deserve. I take OFF my HAT to all of them n THANK them for all the sacrifice they went through for OUR country. AMEN. 🙏🥀👌😉👍.
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No Boots for us – Noisy – hear from a mile.
Crack twigs – step on points ‘- Boom ~ poof.
Ajdious. Spec. Ops before spec ops. Called
Raiders. K – Bars 18″ – Ruber Grips and bigger
steel south end….Double ~ egde could shave
with – if wanted….not…*☆..
ONE MARINE IN A TEAM CARRIED A SINGLE
SHOT – 446″ WITH 50 Cal. Brass.. Thing was
good almost 2 miles depending up or down
Hill….
Seldom resupplyed – cept’Ammo..+.Explosives
Utilities would become rags quick. No jungle
nothing then…R O K would share with us..
Learned don’t eat kym che’ w /meat.
Especially after those long ass Fire fights…..
Meg Laos in 65′ ….Fruit bats were good and
some big ass Snakes – everything with rice.
Even rice with rice. .Jungles had lotsa
seasoning growing and odd ball fruit.
Delta Co. 1/5. 1ST.Mar.Div..
Just after two of us left after 16 months.
Outfit wiped off face of planet. One year
Moratorium… Oh well Don’t mean nothin’…
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The pictures refreshed back into the war.
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Wonderful Job:
I am amazed at how similar our response are to the sound of the wop,wop,wop.
Along with all the things that comes to mind as you sited, one other comes to mine vividly, The MAIL..
That was my only link to reality.
Larry (Monk) Miller, 1st of the 501st. 101st Airborne 1970-71
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I think those of us who have never been to war will find it difficult to fully appreciate what is was like to be in Vietnam. Thank You.
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Simply moving…This was one of the best I’ve seen. One comment, if you don’t mind….As a former 84B20 (Combat Photographer) in country from 5/68 thru 1/70 with the 4th Inf Div at DakTo , An Khe and Pleiku, I believe your stuff can stand alone without the photos from LIFE magazine. Your shots are so much more interesting and “unstaged” for lack of a better word. I took more than 4k photos in my 19 monthe there, and have to say…. your photos are the closest I’ve seen about what it’s like “to be in the shit”. Thank You Art Reilly
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This film captures the feelings and reality which we all jointly experienced.
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I was very young during this war…but even still reading stories and watching these videos are so gut wrenching….thank you all for your service and for my freedom….I never take it for granted!
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USMC 1965-1972 In Country 1966 and 1968 1/5 2/7 . My worse day in Nam better than my best day in the last two years . Agent Orange continues it’s devastation of my body. Thank you for the film.
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brought back memories forgotten some good others what can you say 3rd Bn 9th Marines 65/66
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The wop wop is more of trigger for me too. We’ll done and thank you for sharing
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very chilling. bravo co. 1st. bn. 9th marines RVN 1969
Don’t mean nothing. There it is!
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Well done! Very well done! Those Hueys, God’s angels sent to Earth and the pilots, God’s own fearless warrior angels, whirling blades whop, whop, whopping, flash me back to all those memories, some good, most bad, but now, Thank God, in the past (until the next spasm hits me). The Hueys did bring us the stuff we needed the most and took away best friends to be healed, we hoped and prayed. I made more deals with God than anyone has a right to do. Most of the time we never saw those friends again and hadn’t thought to get addresses, thinking we would live forever. That’s why The Wall was so hard to go to. Hunting names and praying to God you didn’t find them. But always remembering the blessed Huey pilots, the bravest guys God ever placed on Earth, and thinking that all of us grunts owed them our lives on more occasions than we could ever remember. Thanks to all of you, alive or with God.
The other thing was the pictures of the napalm, God’s own fire of salvation for grunts. When “Apocalypse Now” came out, it angered me that it seemed to belittle napalm. I, for one, love that Hellish chemical, because it bailed me out of situations that we found ourselves in on too many occasions. Thanks for a memory well done for this program!
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“Vietnam: Boots On The Ground” is an outstanding artistic achievement! Rarely have I viewed a presentation, only lasting approximately six and one-half minutes, which impacted me so very much. All of my Vietnam memories, both good and bad, came flooding back to me: combat assaults, emergency LZ extractions, carrying the wounded to an Evac hospital. Yes, and even delivering the dead, in body bags, to Graves Registration for processing to go home. My Vietnam experience hardened my emotions, turning my heart nearly to stone. I didn’t want to feel anything anymore. With therapeutic treatment from the VA, I am doing much better. But memories still intrude and the terror returns all too often
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Well done. Good job.
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The sound of helicopters in the sky is a trigger for me.
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Great job! http://coldwarwarrior.com/
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