CAUTION: Watching these stories may cause feelings of intense admiration, sense of duty and a compulsion to be part of something bigger than yourself.
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US Navy Veteran Lyle Hicks served aboard the USS Durham (LKA-114) during the Vietnam War and participated in the rescue of over 4,500 south Vietnamese refugees. During the rescue effort, the North Vietnamese military threatened to attack the US ships, so the ships were ordered to leave the area, leaving […]
LCPL Lance Powlison shares his story of serving as a Combat Engineer and participating in the battle to liberate Kuwait International Airport from besieging Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm, 1991. I am brought to tears by the love and commitment of our military to protect this country and her […]
Born and raised in the Great Depression, Les Davis endured hard times. Growing up throughout World War II his view of war, and the world, was limited until he enlisted and deployed to Korea. His first combat experience at Anui resulted in a massacre of US Army troops when ambushed […]
Vietnam veteran Zin Watford served with Helicopter squadron HMM 162 as crew chief and Medevac door gunner. He flew nearly 200 missions to rescue injured troops in the jungles of Vietnam. Today Zin hosts a weekly veterans PTSD meeting at his home where he and others are able to find […]
Born in 1926, Carl was raised a hardworking farm and ranch kid during the great depression. At 17 yrs old he enlisted in the Army Air Force and was trained as a Ball Turret Gunner on a B-17 crew. The Ball Turret was a rotating sphere made of metal and […]
Mark fought with the 9th Marines Division artillery during the historic battle of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. It was longest and deadliest battle of the war lasting 77 days. After the siege, the 9th Marines moved south to VanderGrift Combat base (LZ Studd) where a subsequent battle took […]
