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Vipers Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam Veteran & Proud Web Site is dedicated to those who served in Vietnam and returned home,  and to those who are still waiting to return, and to those who will never return. God bless, and thank you for your service and sacrifice. 

About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history. Two American advisors were killed on July 8, 1959. Although 1959 is marked as the beginning of the war on Panel 1, East wall, The first American soldier killed in the Vietnam War was Air Force T-Sgt. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. He is listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having a casualty date of June 8, 1956. His name was added to the Wall on Memorial Day 1999. The last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. With the addition of four names added on May 5 ,2009 the total is now 58,261 names listed on the Memorial Wall.

Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled.

Officially there are still 1,870 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia. Approximately 1200 of these are listed as missing (MIA's, POW's, and others).

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said:



"ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"

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Some Gave All

"I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped of their humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered by fate and the military. But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my life. They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. As long as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought will be of my family and my comrades... Such good men."

From "These Good Men" by Michael Norman

The Wall Soldiers

How can we repay these great warriors?

By not wasting the gift, they gave us. No gift is greater than sacrifice for another, and those war dead made that sacrifice and, if asked to repeat their lives, would do it once more. Yet it is up to us, in how we live, to make sure those sacrifices were not made in vain. They died to give us liberty, we must honor and repay them by never surrendering that dearly won gift.

If you are a draft dodger or a Flag burner, or an antiwar VVAW coward, you are not welcome here, this web site is way beyond what your small brain can grasp. Get lost!

       Di Di Mau!!!!!!

The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win.

These young soldiers were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, "getting their tickets punched" either in combat or just close enough to it to become a medal wearing hero.  As the Late Col David Hackworth called them, "the perfumed Princes." Most of these officers neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.

And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations. ( Television's Vietnam, The Impact of Media ) The Vietnam War became more about journalists (Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite) than about a war for the survival of liberal democracy in Southeast Asia. If only they loved their country's young and willing warriors as much as they loved their own children. The welfare of the troops and the TRUTH took a back seat to the press' sense of its own importance.  Thanks to John Kerry the "Opportunist", Jane Fonda the "Communist" and Walter Cronkite and the other left wing journalists who were too swept up in their own danse macabre to even notice the murderous consequences of their own malfeasance -- or to hear the demands of simple decency.

We never lost a battle in Vietnam but we lost the war at home under color of the coward and liar.

Thirty years ago we watched a spectacle of John Kerry and the Winter Soldier bunch - composed of largely fraudulent "veterans" and overt traitors financed by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden -- indelibly stain the honor of every legitimate Vietnam vet. Kerry's Senate testimony paved the way for a parasitic political career constructed on the heroism, sacrifice, and dedication of men and women whose reputations are tarnished to this day by his reprehensible behavior.

It was Kerry and Fonda and their fellow protestors who were directly responsible for creating the false image of Vietnam veterans as a "barbarian horde" which raped and murdered innocent civilians daily as a matter of policy.

It's that mythology, first popularized in the testimony of Lt. Kerry and repeated for more than three decades by the media and the popular culture, that continues to haunt our young men and women serving in the military today, propaganda that threatens current U.S. foreign policy and our national security.

"....Recent scholarship on the military aspects of the war argue persuasively that the military situation on the ground following the battles of 1968 made military victory in the south a possibility and this seems confirmed by the relatively peaceful years of 1970 and 1971. This poses the interesting question of whether it is possible to win a war, and if no one believes it, do you really win the war?"

It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

This site is dedicated to those brave Vietnam Veterans, men and women, living and dead who did their duty to the fullest in war of attrition we were not ALLOWED to win. We never ran, never abandoned our wounded, never stopped loving America even when America abandoned us ... and still abandons our POW/MIA's.  We, the Vietnam Veterans ... shall never forget!

Welcome home Bro's and Sisters it's been a long time coming

Welcome home weary soldiers welcome home!


Weary Soldier

"Vietnam... remembered by those who should forget, forgotten by those who should remember"


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Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation

Col George E. "Bud" Day

   Col. George E. "Bud' Day


A Special Message from Col George E. "Bud" Day
about the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation

Dear Fellow Patriot,

When John Kerry decided to transform truth into fiction and honor into dishonor, we took action. We had no choice. It was our duty to protect and defend not just our honor, but the honor of every past, present and future member of the armed forces.

Fellow prisoners-of-war and I came forward to SPEAK THE TRUTH about our imprisonment and to explain the detrimental consequences of electing John Kerry, a man who defamed both our country and our warriors, to be our president.

That nationwide grassroots movement exposed the lies that John Kerry had been telling more than thirty years . Once John Kerry's true character was revealed, the American people rejected him, and on Election day, Kerry conceded the presidential election. That year, American Film Renaissance named Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal the "Documentary with the Greatest Impact". We told our story. And we changed history.

However We have not yet completed our mission

It is essential that we document and recount this courageous victory over years and years of misinformation about Vietnam. Our victory was one small step in support of our mission "... to set the record straight, factually, about Vietnam and those who fought there."  By continuing the efforts of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, we want to build on our momentum. It is up to us to put an end to the "Hollywood Version" of the Vietnam War and the Vietnam Veteran. Please help us write the final chapter of this historic effort and help fund the book and film  that will document the honor and integrity of Vietnam Veterans. Help us reveal the truth about their service and sacrifices. Help us continue to protect and defend the honor of all those members of our armed forces who gave all, and all those who gave some.

Help us to guarantee that a factual record is documented to salute the honor of those who lived and died believing in "Duty, Honor, Country" their children ,grandchildren and so on deserve, have earned the right, to be able to read about the stories of heroism exhibited by their fathers, uncles, brothers, sisters and others they never got to know.

Our success resulted not only in swaying the Presidential election; it also resulted in numerous lawsuits. I consider the lawsuits to be overwhelmingly successful - because truth prevailed. The Stolen Honor campaign was completely truthful, and numerous lawsuits all ruled in our favor. The remaining debt, including legal fees totals just over $100,000, a small price to pay to defend our honor and the honor of our great nation.

We need your help to bring closure to this chapter of Stolen Honor.

I am asking proud Americans like you, for your finacial support

We are committed to speaking the truth, a truth that is not being told. As the debate over our country's current wars continue to rage, it is time for us to rise up and be heard, I want our service members to hear us load and clear - that TRUTH will always prevail and that their sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Please donate today to VVLF (Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation).

Col George E. "Bud" Day
Director and President,
Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation

To make a donation to VVLF, please visit
https://secure.donationreport.com/donate.html?key=ECHZG3K7NFFR

or Mailing Address

VVLF
PO Box 354
Newtown Square, PA 19073-0354

The Vietnam Veterans' Legacy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donation is tax deductible, Federal Tax Identification Number: 20-1985016. The official registration and financial information of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1 (800) 732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.



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STOLEN HONOR
WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL

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Stolen Honor
( former Vietnam POWs )


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In Memory "The Vietnam veteran remains the object of fantasy, not an object of history. And this is not always a bad thing. With every accusation directed against the vet as "committing atrocities," comes the laudatory image of the vet as superhuman warrior. And with every attempt to portray the Vietnam veteran as being "just another soldier," comes the risk of marginalization from mainstream American interests. Today Americans are interested in Vietnam veterans, perhaps fancifully to be sure, but for reasons now increasingly obvious. The war, despite being on the other side of the globe, never left America, and despite South Vietnam's 1975 surrender, has never ceased to be fought in the combat zone always most important to Americans: the United States"

Nathan Alexander

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VIETNAM WAR FACTS

VIETNAM WAR MYTHS

The following link is the true history of the Vietnam War, great for students and those who want the truth.

Vietnam: Looking Back - At The Facts



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VIETNAM

365 days of complete boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror

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Vietnam 365 days
The worst atrocity was committed when America abandoned us!


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This Day In The Vietnam War

February 8

1962 - MACV established

The Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), headed by Gen. Paul D. Harkins, former U.S. Army Deputy Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, is installed in Saigon as the United States reorganizes its military command in South Vietnam.

Before MACV, the senior U.S. military command in South Vietnam was the U.S. Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG-Vietnam), which was formed on November 1, 1955 to provide military assistance to South Vietnam. MAAG-Vietnam had U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps elements that provided advice and assistance to the South Vietnamese Ministry of Defense, Joint General Staff and corps and division commanders, as well as to training centers and province and district headquarters.

MAAG-Vietnam was disbanded in 1964 and its personnel and responsibilities absorbed by MACV. The establishment of MACV, which greatly enlarged and reorganized the advisory effort, represented a substantial increase in the U.S. commitment to the war in Vietnam, and American assistance to the South Vietnamese doubled between 1961 and 1962. Thereafter, the conduct of the war was directed by MACV and a major build-up of American advisers, support personnel, and eventually an escalation that included the commitment of U.S. combat troops began.

1971 - Operation Lam Son 719 begins

South Vietnamese army forces invade southern Laos. Dubbed Operation Lam Son 719, the mission goal was to disrupt the communist supply and infiltration network along Route 9 in Laos, adjacent to the two northern provinces of South Vietnam.

The operation was supported by U.S. airpower (aviation and airlift) and artillery (firing across the border from firebases inside South Vietnam). Observers described the drive on North Vietnam's supply routes and depots as some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Enemy resistance was initially light, as a 12,000-man spearhead of the South Vietnamese army thrust its way across the border into the communists' deepest jungle stronghold--the town of Tchepone, a major enemy supply center on Route 9, was their major objective. However, resistance stiffened in the second week when the North Vietnamese rushed reinforcements to the area. During the last week of February, the big push bogged down about 16 miles from the border, after bloody fighting in which the communist troops overran two South Vietnamese army battalions.

Also on this day: In Cambodia, Premier Lon Nol suffers a paralyzing stroke and turns his duties over to Deputy Premier Sirik Matak. Debilitated by the stroke, Lon Nol resigned on April 20. A week later, he withdrew his resignation, staying on in a figurehead role as Sirik Matak continued to run the government pending his recovery.

POW/MIA's Reported Missing on this date in Vietnam

Since the end of American involvement in Southeast Asia, over 10,000 reports relating to Americans have been received. Nearly 1000 of these reports are first-hand, eyewitness reports. Many concern American prisoners who were not released at the end of the war. Collectively, they present a compelling case that Americans are still held against their will by an enemy many of us have forgotten.

POW/MIA

February 8

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1 02/08/68 CHENOWETH ROBERT P. ARMY PORTLAND OR
2 02/08/68 GEORGE JAMES E. ARMY FORT WORTH TX
3 02/08/68 HAMMOND DENNIS W. USMC DETROIT MI
4 02/08/68 LENKER MICHAEL R. ARMY ROCKFORD IL
5 02/08/68 LAPHAM ROBERT G. USAF MARSHALL MI
6 02/08/68 PURCELL BENJAMIN H. ARMY COLUMBUS GA
7 02/08/68 ROSE JOSEPH III ARMY MORGANTOWN WV
8 02/08/68 ZAWTOCKI JOSEPH S. JR. USMC UTICA NY
9 02/08/68 ZIEGLER ROY E. ARMY N/A N/A
10 02/08/69 CLARK THOMAS E. USAF EMPORIUM PA
11 02/08/69 MAC PHAIL DON A. ARMY CHELMSFORD MA
12 02/08/69 WILKINS CALVIN WAYNE USMC WACO TX
13 02/08/71 STEWART PAUL C. ARMY BEUENA PARK CA


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Casualties from the State of Illinois on this date in Vietnam

Seal Of The State Of Illinois

February 8

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DAN E BRYAN
PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
1st Infantry Division
20 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Monday, October 27, 1947
From KEWANEE, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Jan 3, 1968
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In GIA DINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
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JAMES STANLEY CERIONE III
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
Americal
20 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Tuesday, August 26, 1947
From DALLAS CITY, IL
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Oct 4, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In QUANG NAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 23

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WILLIAM KARL COLEGATE
PFC - E2 - Marine Corps - Regular
23 year old Married, Caucasian, Male
Born on Sunday, December 10, 1944
From RED BUD, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 21, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 23

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CLARENCE GALLOWAY
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
101st Airborne Division
27 year old Single, Negro, Male
Born on Monday, January 02, 1939
From CHICAGO, IL
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Jul 8, 1965
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1966
In , SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died of wounds, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
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LEONARD JACKSON JR
PFC - E2 - Marine Corps - Regular
23 year old Single, Negro, Male
Born on Sunday, July 16, 1944
From CHICAGO, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 18, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
OTHER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 30

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HOWARD LEO JOSELANE
CAPT - O3 - Marine Corps - Regular
29 year old Married, Caucasian, Male
Born on Friday, February 18, 1938
From CHICAGO, IL
Length of service 6 years
His tour began on Jul 26, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In QUANG NAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 31

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JAMES LEONARD LOPP
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
198th Light Infantry Brigade
20 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Saturday, July 05, 1947
From SCALES MOUND, IL
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Oct 4, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In , SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered
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ALLEN LAWRENCE MUMMERT
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
9th Infantry Division
21 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Tuesday, December 03, 1946
From LANARK, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Oct 23, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In DINH TUONG, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 34

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LE ROY ALVIN PETER
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
MACV Advisors
20 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Saturday, August 30, 1947
From PAYSON, IL
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Apr 2, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In QUANG TIN, SOUTH VIETNAM
Non-Hostile, died missing, GROUND CASUALTY
ACCIDENTAL SELF-DESTRUCTION
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 36

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AQUILLA ANTHONY PHILLIPS
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
199th Light Infantry Brigade
21 year old Single, Negro, Male
Born on Friday, October 04, 1946
From CHICAGO, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 19, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In GIA DINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
Panel 38E - Line 36

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JOHN CHRISTOPHER PONDOFF
PFC - E2 - Marine Corps - Regular
19 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Tuesday, June 22, 1948
From EAST ST LOUIS, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 19, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1968
In QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
OTHER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
Body was recovered
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MICHAEL JOHN SPEAR
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
25th Infantry Division
23 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Monday, November 26, 1945
From CHICAGO, IL
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Oct 24, 1968
Casualty was on Feb 8, 1969
In HUA NGHIA, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
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John F. Kerry Must Resign

John Kerry has a long and well-documented history of providing "aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of war -- particularly in the case of North Vietnam. By his own account, Kerry violated the UCMJ, the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Code while serving as a Navy officer, and he further stands in violation of Article three, Section three of the U.S. Constitution which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare. Thus, in accordance with the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," We, the People of the United States, demand that Kerry resign his seat in the Senate.

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