Phil Rosenthal posting as “Bucko” on the John Wayne – The Alamo forum: Re: And the beat goes on! Postby Bucko on Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:34 pm Davy: You are WAY too hard on yourself! First of all (watch out – here I go on another rant!), if I had it to do all over again, I probably would not have. I was totally against the Vietnam War because I hated the government , i.e. Johnson and Nixon, and what they were doing to our generation. My home town in NJ, per capita, suffered more men killed in ‘Nam than any other town in the U.S. and they were all my friends, not just friends, but GOOD friends. One day in college, while we were closing down the Administration building because of something or other we were protesting related to the war (strange that exams were supposed to be held that week, too!), somebody held up a VC flag. I saw that and immediately questioned what I was doing there, know I certainly wasn’t supporting the friggin’ Communicsts to kill my friends. So, after 8 semesters in college, on the Dean’s List, and with only one semester to go, I quit college and enlisted in the Army. I had to see what was going on over there, while I was living the good life at home, participating in the anti-War movement half on principle and half because it was SO easy to get girls that way (the moratoriums in D.C. was like being at the Playboy Mansion!). How I didn’t catch a STD is beyond me. Anyway, I somehow did well in basic training, finished Armor AIT at Ft. Knox, and then was recommended for jump school, Ranger School, and for the Special Forces Qualification “Q” Course. Somehow, I made it through and after being pulled out of the Defense Languages School in Monterey, they pulled me out, got my butt on a plane out of Travis AFB and shipped me to Okinawa for three weeks and then to the ‘Nam, with the 5th Special forces Group, and then… Read more »
Phil Rosenthal posting as “Bucko” on the John Wayne – The Alamo forum: Re: And the beat goes on! Postby Bucko on Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:34 pm Davy: You are WAY too hard on yourself! First of all (watch out – here I go on another rant!), if I had it to do all over again, I probably would not have. I was totally against the Vietnam War because I hated the government , i.e. Johnson and Nixon, and what they were doing to our generation. My home town in NJ, per capita, suffered more men killed in ‘Nam than any other town in the U.S. and they were all my friends, not just friends, but GOOD friends. One day in college, while we were closing down the Administration building because of something or other we were protesting related to the war (strange that exams were supposed to be held that week, too!), somebody held up a VC flag. I saw that and immediately questioned what I was doing there, know I certainly wasn’t supporting the friggin’ Communicsts to kill my friends. So, after 8 semesters in college, on the Dean’s List, and with only one semester to go, I quit college and enlisted in the Army. I had to see what was going on over there, while I was living the good life at home, participating in the anti-War movement half on principle and half because it was SO easy to get girls that way (the moratoriums in D.C. was like being at the Playboy Mansion!). How I didn’t catch a STD is beyond me. Anyway, I somehow did well in basic training, finished Armor AIT at Ft. Knox, and then was recommended for jump school, Ranger School, and for the Special Forces Qualification “Q” Course. Somehow, I made it through and after being pulled out of the Defense Languages School in Monterey, they pulled me out, got my butt on a plane out of Travis AFB and shipped me to Okinawa for three weeks and then to the ‘Nam, with the 5th Special forces Group, and then… Read more »