'Nam music chiseled onto your soul

Just about anything by CCR or Crosby Stills & Nash. I hear a song and I'm back in 69-71, listening to AFRS or Radio Geronimo or one of the "pirate stations" broadcasting from the Med. We'd pick all this stuff up on short-wave radio.

All I have to do is hear that music, close my eyes and I can feel the heat and smell the dust and diesel fumes.

We were stationed at a "listening station" in Turkey. Everybody had a relative or friend serving in Nam and everyone feared that was their next duty.
 
Nathan said:
Music that played on Armed Forces Radio, or shortly after you got back to the World that affected you...

My time in Nam was '71~72, I'll go first:

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I have that in my playlist and enjoy hearing it occasionally. While a dinner with a family friend a while back he brought up NAM, and asked my when were you there. It kind of shocked him when I said oh, last night or was it this morning.
 
Leaving on a Jet Plain, don't know when I'll be back again.
When we were flying into Cam Ranh Bay, from Clarke Air Base one of the guys was playing that on his guitar, and everyone tuned in to his music.
 


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