Still trying to get to know my old man a 173rd Vietnam vet

[DashOneBravo]

3. I get it bro

It’s kinda scary but we both took almost identical paths. There wasn’t anything more I wanted to do then be a paratrooper.

I’m glad you have to journals to read. I was lucky to get to talk to my father about it. Once I was in, he felt more comfortable talking about it. He was in Korea and Vietnam and retired. But he’d fight the Chinese every night, barking orders.

I feel the same way you did. We got to do the nut punching part but we don’t have a ruck like they carried. I know you’re proud of him and he was proud of you. Not only for being dumb enough to be an Infantry PVT but for the father you became.