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Experiences Through the Vietnam Era---

Father’s Experiences Through the Vietnam Era---


Beginning with the US and its involvement in the Vietnam War in 1963, my father was in high school and about to enter the military before he was drafted. In 1965 when he graduated from high school, the US was no longer an advisor in the war and our war status had increased to having deployed 500,000 troops. Once active, he was assigned to go to Athens, Georgia where he was trained for the war effort in the Supply Core. Upon him graduating his training class, everyone in his unit was assigned to go to various destinations. While others went to Vietnam, my dad was sent to the East Coast where he was stationed on a destroyer that was assigned for intelligence purposes and to protect the USS Liberty, which was a spy ship. T...

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