Non GMC topic

[jim galbavy]

Welcome from Vietnam.

The short. ...... here with VETS WITH A MISSION for a few weeks.
Check it out on FB.

jim Galbavy
'73 x-CL ANNIE
Da Nang, Vietnam

 

[Ken B]

Jim,

Please to not take offense with this. I have a real personal problem with visiting a former enemy. Probably because of my involvement with this
particular one, the fact that we lost to them, and they are in still in control today.

That said, I have visited Japan, Germany, China, and South Korea in the past and would do so again. I would never consider going to North Korea or
Vietnam. We were taught or learned on our own to hate the enemy, the fighting and enemy for me was going on in Vietnam and Korea but not the rest of
the above counties.

All of that said, I have a good friend who goes to Vietnam every second year. His wife is Vietnamese.

I realize we have made amends with them over the past 40 years. It just does not set right with me to go there.

I once sat in a presentation by Paul Tibbets (pilot of Enola Gay) and he was asked how he felt about Japan today. His response was "every time I see
one of the Japanese cars on our roads I was to head right for it".

Enjoy your trip, see and visit a lot, and please do not take this posting personally. I just could not do it.
--
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana

 

[jim galbavy]

Ken, I totally understand and take no offense. We spend most of our time with medical
first responders' training and conducting free medical clinics with the Pa Co 'Yards who sided
with us and then we left behind to face the music. This is a American Vietnam Vets'group that has been do this
for 23 years (Vets with a Mission).

jim galbavy

 

[d c *mac* macdonald]

Thank you, Jim, for this most honorable undertaking to aid those who helped us.

D C "Mac" Macdonald
Amateur Radio K2GKK
Since 30 November '53
USAF and FAA, Retired
Member GMCMI & Classics
Oklahoma City, OK
"The Money Pit"
TZE166V101966
'76 ex-Palm Beach
k2gkk + hotmail dot com
(B-52 crew, Jun-Nov 1965)

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Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC topic

Ken, I totally understand and take no offense. We spend most of our time with medical
first responders' training and conducting free medical clinics with the Pa Co 'Yards who sided
with us and then we left behind to face the music. This is a American Vietnam Vets'group that has been do this
for 23 years (Vets with a Mission).

jim galbavy

 

[jeanette]

Thank you Jim for your dedication to help others.

Sent from my iPhone

>
> Thank you, Jim, for this most honorable undertaking to aid those who helped us.
>
> D C "Mac" Macdonald
> Amateur Radio K2GKK
> Since 30 November '53
> USAF and FAA, Retired
> Member GMCMI & Classics
> Oklahoma City, OK
> "The Money Pit"
> TZE166V101966
> '76 ex-Palm Beach
> k2gkk + hotmail dot com
> (B-52 crew, Jun-Nov 1965)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gmclist on behalf of Jim Galbavy
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 17:09
> To: gmclist
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC topic
>
> Ken, I totally understand and take no offense. We spend most of our time with medical
> first responders' training and conducting free medical clinics with the Pa Co 'Yards who sided
> with us and then we left behind to face the music. This is a American Vietnam Vets'group that has been do this
> for 23 years (Vets with a Mission).
>
> jim galbavy
>
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[johnny]

The one I have a problem with is Hanoi Jane. Every time she'd visit our Atlanta studios severalof us, me included, would leave the poremises. Now
it's over and done with, we learned that Asian thought and values are so different from Western one we didn't have any business there. >Now

 

[Jim Hupy]

In a few words," Vietnam Sucks now as bad as it did then." Between bullets
and politics and agent orange, I lost a whole bunch of friends there and
here. People like J.F. don't deserve the ink, or electrons. That part of
the world is not the same as ours. Nor are the inhabitants. Except for the
'yards.
Jim Hupy

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 2:00 PM Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <

> The one I have a problem with is Hanoi Jane. Every time she'd visit our
> Atlanta studios severalof us, me included, would leave the poremises. Now
> it's over and done with, we learned that Asian thought and values are so
> different from Western one we didn't have any business there. >Now the time. Up to the last few weeks, had Westmoreland been told "You will
> take and hole Vietnam" we could have done it, but only for as long as we
> stood with out foot on the neck of them locals. Once removed, they would
> go back to war with each other as they had done for centuries.
> The pickle in my vanilla is, we didn't read an recent Russian military
> history - or we would of skipped Afghanistan completely.
> As to Col Paul, I had the greatest respect for him. His actions probably
> saved a couple hundred thousand lives. An interesting aside, I very nearly
> busted a cap on his son Gene, who threatened to come across my bar once
> and kick my ass. He stopped halfway across looking down the barrel of the
> .380 we kept behind the bar. At that point, his co-pilot took him out to
> the parking lot and beat piss outa him. Two beer story sometime.
>
> --johnny
> --
> 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> "I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me
> in hell" - ol Andy, paraphrased
>
>
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