so u never witnessed it? I can't see destroying a country a beautiful sight, i know war will always be, but it is sad, that some relish it..

gypsy wrote:so u never witnessed it? I can't see destroying a country a beautiful sight, i know war will always be, but it is sad, that some relish it..

u drop napalm on a tree lines where the north vietnamese are shooting motars at u, my boss said he would have never survived, if he had not been raised down here in the heat, because vietnam weather is just like here hot, but they have the monsoon, i guess.,did u see forest gump, when he was pulling ppl to saftey,, the fire was napalm, the white shooting things was white phosporus, ( spelling) its what they call willy p. if it gets on u, u cant stop it from burning even with water, it keeps burning deeper into the body, i think u dig it out,we trained with it some , mosty watching it like in a hand grenade, a white phosphorus one, but bigger ones are droped from planes,

Being married to a VietNam vet I have learned alot about warfare..ask your boss about bouncing betties.

gypsy wrote:so u never witnessed it? I can't see destroying a country a beautiful sight, i know war will always be, but it is sad, that some relish it..

It is not all about destroying the country as you put it. The napalm attacks saved many American soldiers lives. War is not to be relished as you put it, maybe a napalm drop is a necessity of saving lives.

gypsy wrote:so u never witnessed it? I can't see destroying a country a beautiful sight, i know war will always be, but it is sad, that some relish it..

napalm is no differnent than a forest fire , u use it to kill pll that are killing u, the vegetation will grow back like after a fire especially in a jungle , what would killl permantly was agent orange, if u remember, but the north vietnamese were in tunnels and we were trying to get rids of the cover, i dont know if this could be true , maybe, i had a history professor in college, he said for the time we spent and the money we spent in vietnam and this was in 1970 that we could take earth moving equipmnent and bulldoze down teh whole north vietnam,

Agent Orange was a defoliant used to clear the perimeters of base camps, to give visibility and prevent attacks , it has become the most common name in the chemicals used, there were also Agent Red, green , blue, yellow, all were herbicides or defoliants, Agent Orange has been the main one known to cause cancer as well as a host of other medical issues. Many Wildlife and Fisheries used this chemical to kill nuisance plants blocking waterways in the US, especially in the southern region.

SSC wrote:Being married to a VietNam vet I have learned alot about warfare..ask your boss about bouncing betties.

im sorry i ment to post to this when u poste it,, i dont need to ask my boss, a bouncing betty i have know about for years, "correct me if im wrong," its a land mine that shoots up, to a level to blow off ur nuts, and as has always been said, a wounded soldier, has to have ppl help him there by using up personnel on wounded men in ones platoon,or sqaud...i was not in vietnam but all my training for 5 months was at i said in ft polk , which at the time was exclusively for training for vietnam, they built places to look like vietnam, all my drill sergents and instuctors had been in vietnam, and when on break, the insructors would tell us stories, and also over the years many pppl i worked with, of course one of the main topics at work was the cheep sex while on R and R,,lol
a live in sex partner that cleaned, lol,

There are many stories from the returning Veterans and many more that will never be told.