Vietnam War Archives - Page 14 of 22

THE EIGHTH NIGHT SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

Relief flooded through me. It was over. I’d survived another of what my team called ‘fire fights’. There was no way to adjust to the change from combat to whatever this was. It was still dark. My ears still rang. But with my night vision returning, I could vaguely see...

THE EIGHTH NIGHT, 30 Days has September

by James Strauss | 73 comments

The move was a long hard one. In training I’d literally run twenty miles with a forty-pound pack on my back carrying an M-14 and wearing a full helmet and liner. I had none of those things going down the ridge, in hopes of coming in behind whatever units were set up to ambush

THE EIGHTH DAY THIRD PART, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 46 comments

I stared up at the unlikely and ungainly monster of a loud propeller-driven airship. The Skyraider didn’t look like it could stay in the air, but there it was, orbiting dependably..

THE EIGHTH DAY SECOND PART, 30 days Has September

by James Strauss | 46 comments

I finished my letter home, the light of dawn sufficient to allow me to see the paper almost as well as the lousy black ink from my cheap government ballpoint.

BURNING BRIDGES

by James Strauss | 9 comments

There are a lot of people mad at me, and some filled with disdain, because I write on here from the heart about what I believe, and it is not what they believe, and others who are simply afraid that I will complicate my life with needless enemies and those seeking my...