'Nam music chiseled onto your soul

His Dudeness said:
Gump received the CMH (Congressional Medal of Honor) in the movie. The President usually does not award Purple Hearts. I can understand the confusion since Gump showed President Johnson where he was wounded.

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To get a CMH at that time, you had to either be killed or be a super hero. Anyone that received the CMH, I had total respect for. Although we had good days and bad days, it was the night patrols that were the scariest. It was already difficult to see and those little $%5&7@*8& where hard enough to see in daylight, especially in the jungles. On my very first night patrol, there was only 17 of us on patrol looking for insurgents. I am moving very slowly to try to listen for anything moving. Then, we stop and listen. We stopped and stood silent for about 3 minutes each time.

I have a funny story, which there weren’t too many of over there, but won’t tell it here due to the nature of the language.
 
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911 said:
To get a CMH at that time, you had to either be killed or be a super hero. Anyone that received the CMH, I had total respect for. Although we had good days and bad days, it was the night patrols that were the scariest. It was already difficult to see and those little $%5&7@*8& where hard enough to see in daylight, especially in the jungles. On my very first night patrol, there was only 17 of us on patrol looking for insurgents. I am moving very slowly to try to listen for anything moving. Then, we stop and listen. We stopped and stood silent for about 3 minutes each time.

I have a funny story, which there weren’t too many of over there, but won’t tell it here due to the nature of the language.
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@911, If you'd be willing to share the story via PM I'd be interested to hear it.
 

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Thought about maybe 17 of them to ride the time machine back -
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Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Animals - We Gotta get Outa This Place
Buffalo Springfield - For What it's Worth
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Credence Cleerwater revival - Fortunate Son
Credence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the Jungle
Crosby Stills Nash Young - Ohio
Edwin Starr - War
Jefferson Airplane - Someone to Love
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Doors - Riders on the Storm
Mamas and the Papas - California Dreaming
Rolling Stones - I Can't Get no Satisfaction
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Youngbloods - Everybody Get Together
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I was flying the back seat in a t-33. Orientation ride since I was an Air Traffic Controller. Any way we were boring holes when the pilot turned on Chris Noel on the RB. Rock music in a war zone. Never forgot that.
 
On one of my ships, a tin can, "Good Vibrations" sort of became our anthem. Heard it all the time. When I was serving on a Destroyer Tender, "Lucy in the Sky" was just released and a lot of Swabs liked that tune. For me, hearing anything by Creedence takes me right back there.
 
Nathan said:
When I was pulling midnight to 6 watch, sitting in the wheelhouse of an LCU anchored out in the middle of the river at Cà Mau , listening to Armed Forces Radio:

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I hadn't heard that song in many years and to honest I couldn't even remember who the artist was.

If I remember correctly it came out in 68' or 69' and I got in country 2-69'......thanks for the memories Nate.
 
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Just yesterday while driving to my friend’s house, the following song came on the radio on Sirius XM. I had an immediate flashback of waking up to the smell of bacon and this song playing on the radio. Yeah, a guy had some bacon, but I didn’t get any of it. Anyway, it was a good memory because that was one of the few nights I got to sleep all night. A full 8 hours of sleep was hard to come by. But waking up and smelling the bacon gave me memories of being back home on a Sunday morning. Mom always made bacon and eggs on Sunday morning.

See if you recall this song:

 
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I had satellite radio for my car for a short while. It's sorted out by genre. When I listened to "Music from the 70s," which I often did. I never heard them play a protest song. I thought that odd, because songs about Nam were so much a part of that period.
 
JustDave said:
I had satellite radio for my car for a short while. It's sorted out by genre. When I listened to "Music from the 70s," which I often did. I never heard them play a protest song. I thought that odd, because songs about Nam were so much a part of that period.
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I play mostly 50’s, even though it was before my time. I like Doo Wop and early 60’s up to ‘65, plus classic Country. I listen to :Willie’s Roadhouse,” which is owned by Willie Nelson. I think music from the 80’s was best.
 
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