Vietnam Voices: 'You're Alert All The Time. If You're Not Alert, You're Going To Die'

Vietnam Voices: 'You're alert all the time. If you're not alert, you're going to die'

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Vietnam Voices: 'You're always listening. That's one sound you'll never forget — the incoming'

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Vietnam Voices: 'That was probably the scariest part of my life'

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Vietnam Voices: 'You're going to a place where the lucky guys get shot, picked up and taken out'

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Vietnam Voices: 'You knew what fear was. But then, you got hard toward it'

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Vietnam Voices: 'You realize, 'Man, this is a war zone, isn't it?' It settles in after awhile'

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Vietnam Voices: "And now I look back, 'Why didn't it bother me?'"

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Vietnam Voices: 'The whole city was alive and then ... nobody on the streets'

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Vietnam Voices: 'Them ain't fireflies'

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Vietnam Voices: 'When I see you again, you better have your helmet and your .45'

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Vietnam Voices: 'By the grace of God, you're not on the Vietnam War Memorial'

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Vietnam Voices: 'I looked at everybody to see who I could follow. There wasn't anybody.'

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Vietnam Voices: 'Once ... they start shooting at you, you have a different feeling'

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Vietnam Voices: 'You were always worried. There was always that feeling. Of not knowing.'

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Vietnam Voices: 'I don't think I was destined to come back from there fully intact'

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Vietnam Voices: 'We had our war for a day'

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Vietnam Voices: 'It's amazing how many rounds can be fired and nothing hit'

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Vietnam Voices: 'Sometimes it was mayhem, but it was controlled mayhem'

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Vietnam Voices: 'Oh Lord, what have I gotten myself into?'

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Vietnam Voices: 'I guess when you’re 18, 19 years old, you think it’s going to be the other guy'

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