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Originally Posted by xNikex
I guess it wouldn't hurt. Like I said, I was the only one he had ever shared his experience with. I even had to tell my dad(his own brother) about it.
Forgive me for I do not have any aviators in my family. I am the first and currently only one.
He was a sniper back in Vietnam. I do not know what platoon or group he was in.
He told me how him and other group of snipers where counter sniping over a villiage one time. He saw a Vietnamese sniper light a ciggarette and took him out very quickly. Then a few seconds later, a sniper got him in the hand. He said he didn't flinch and used the angle of the bullet wound to locate the other sniper and got a head shot before the other sniper could fire a second time.
Another story he told me was when he and his platoon across were returning to camp and had to cross a creek on the way there and were quickly being surrounded by enemy troops. He had to stay behind for the night and quickly dug a hole in the mud with his helmet and covered it with bamboo and leaves. He told me about how he could hear troops walking over his hole and their shadows dragging across the moonlight shining over him. He could hear them talking and laughing to each other and that at one point, the troops stopped and rested over him. One of the troops walked directly over him and stopped and it seemed to my uncle that the soldier looked down directly into his eyes. He waited all night and they eventually left and he returned to his base unharmmed.
Another thing I need to mention is that on his mission that got him a ticket home, he and his whole platoon were ambushed and were all lined up and shot and he and another soldier barely survived. He was shot in the hand(again), one in the chest, one in the leg, and another scraped his head.
These are the only stories I can recall right now.
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Interesting stuff Nike! It's a real trip talking to someone who has fought and killed in times of war. To me it's unimaginable to take a life...I would only hope I had the courage to make such a tough decision. I find it mesmerizing hearing from others that have experienced war though. It's hard to imagine that anyone from the homeless guy you pass on the street corner everyday to the closest family member may have literally gone through living hell for their country. You just never know. I know yours was a vietnam story and another poster asked for a vietnam story.
I don't have anything really good so ... the videos below are the most interesting I could remember watching on Vietnam vets . It's from a documentary called "first kill"....the section I've posted is pretty disturbing. I'd recommend watching the FULL video on youtube parts 1-8 to anyone interested in the psychology of war...kinda gives you a different perspective on things.
Anyway, watch from about (3:12 - end) of the first posted video. and then from (beginning - to around 4:55) of the second video. Then imagine having this vet for an uncle!!!!
(you have to turn the volume way up the audio levels are low)
08-28-2009, 04:30 AM
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