Finding the strength to say goodbye,
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2018 @ 11:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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For many years, I have had a percolating theory hiding just below the surface of my mind.
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 10:05 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Most of my stories to the grandkids start with believe it or not. In 1963, believe it or not, my school was segregated and the only confusion was with two ethnic Japanese sisters.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 @ 9:23 am
By: Ted McDonald
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The war with France in 1946 and a final war with Cambodia in 1978 are like book ends to 30 years of conflict. Maybe West Point studies this one.
Published: Saturday, April 21st, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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In 1960s Jungle, you could not call a taxi. You could radio base for a Chopper ride and mark your clearing with Smoke.
Published: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 @ 9:56 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The Military has a simple 10 week method to determine mental health ... called boot camp.
Published: Monday, April 16th, 2018 @ 3:28 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Cambodian Genocide (The Killing Fields) was the dream of Pol Pot to return Cambodia to an agrarian society by murdering the elite.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 6:17 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Vietnamese are not fond of mixed children and I am told the Chinese offered to send troops but got a 'thanks but no thanks'.
Published: Sunday, April 8th, 2018 @ 9:08 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I truly wish that our founding fathers had been a bit more clear on what they meant when writing the 2nd Amendment but numerous contemporaneous writings clearly show their intent was for individual possession and ownership of firearms.
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2018 @ 9:06 am
By: Bobby Tony
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One of my Standard Operating Procedures when I hear of a Vietnam Veteran in the news is to research them to find the 'Story behind the Story.
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 1:56 am
By: Bobby Tony
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"BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL"
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 @ 10:50 am
By: Bobby Tony
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In the spirit of giving this year, it is perhaps appropriate to remember that some gifts cannot be bought or sold but earned.
Published: Saturday, January 6th, 2018 @ 4:11 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I am somewhat sensitive to the "a soldier" reference in most of the news articles. The result is now that we are embroiled in a donnybrook over the death of someone who is now being referred to in almost every account as "a soldier."
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 10:58 am
By: Bobby Tony
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If you will bear with me, I will try to bring this post to a point. Memory triggers of past events are often disturbing, but they don't always have to be regardless of what the Google says.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 8:59 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The recent hurricane Irma reminded me of one of the now primitive techniques we used during 1968-1969 in Vietnam.
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2017 @ 4:25 am
By: Bobby Tony
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My first grandchild had his 2nd birthday recently and his parents gave him a ukulele. My son asked me to tune it for him. I told him he was too young to appreciate the tuning but it was better just to let him get used to making sounds. The music might come later.
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am
By: Bobby Tony
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One of the tricks of the mind is that we remember things like a snapshot. After a few years our image of the past is cast in indelible concrete like an old picture in the shoe box up in the attic or a statue in the town square
Published: Thursday, June 29th, 2017 @ 9:45 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Three day exhibit at North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer N.C. first.
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 @ 2:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Life is a not a 100 yard dash, it is a marathon with many hurdles along the way.
Published: Saturday, May 13th, 2017 @ 9:25 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I learned an important lesson during my "Kiss Years as a swinging single".
Published: Monday, April 24th, 2017 @ 9:21 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Alex Ortolano recently posted an article here on BCN which explained how a Medivac crew located and picked up wounded soldiers during his tour in 1965. Here is another tribute to those Lunatics of the Sky.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 7:25 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The documentary shows the tactics of both sides. I have not seen another documentary with these details. This battle was between Australians and Vietnamese.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 12:40 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Do you often drop things now that you never did before? Here are a couple of solutions. One helps pick them up the other may help keeping you from dropping things.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 @ 2:43 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I did not serve with Lt. General Harold Moore but I benefited from his trail blazing techniques in the use of helicopter warfare. May have possible seen the movie about the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14-15, 1965 at LZ X-Ray in South Vietnam.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 12:30 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I received this card in recently asking for an update on one of my old cars. I never responded but was surprised that they would still have me in the files since 1974 when I bought the car.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 1:13 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Here are the North Vietnamese. No series would be complete without mentioning both sides of a conflict. South Vietnamese communist were labeled Viet Cong.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 1:06 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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There is always a part II to most of my stories. Most of the time I do not publish them here on BCN because even I know that very few care about Part I, so a Part II is further proof that my own narcissistic tendencies have overcome my better judgement.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 4:58 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The fact is that music has always been a major part of my family since I was born. My dad was a self taught musician. We always had instruments around the house.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 8:04 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) surrendered in 1975 ending foreign domination started by the French in 1861.
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 @ 4:59 am
By: Ted McDonald
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New Zealand provided a force of combat soldiers despite protests at home. A total of 3800 served in combat resulting in 37 killed in action and 187 wounded.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 5:52 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The battle of Tra Binh Dong was between the South Koreans and North Vietnamese.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2017 @ 2:47 am
By: Ted McDonald
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When did North Carolina become known as North Carolina and acquire its modern shape?
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 1:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Army had a detailed method for accounting for the location and duty status of each soldier in each unit. Each unit submitted a morning report showing strength and number of soldiers in each unit as of the date of the report.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 5:21 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Here are a series of NASA videos featuring John Glenn's Friendship 7 flight into space.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 2:25 am
By: Bobby Tony
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