Jim Schue Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Headed there later this week to take Dad and Mom out for his Vietnam reunion. There will be some down time for me. What is there to do/see/take pictures of while there?
Kentucky Windage Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Don't know what there is to do there but I like that you're taking your dad out there for that. Can you tell us anything about his service for the country? My father, just last year, attended a reunion that he hadn't been to since he had his release papers.
Jim Schue Posted June 19, 2018 Author Posted June 19, 2018 Don't know what there is to do there but I like that you're taking your dad out there for that. Can you tell us anything about his service for the country? My father, just last year, attended a reunion that he hadn't been to since he had his release papers. Vietnam reunion? That's a long time to have to simmer on that stuff those guys had to endure. My dad first started getting up with his group in '88, and it was far too long coming. My dad was in 11th Armored Cav, but more specifically he was Air Rifle Patrol (ARP) and even more specifically he was Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP). He was in country in '68 and '69 and came back home with an unbelievably cool handlebar mustache, from the pics I've seen. Wild trivia — My grandpa was a combat engineer under Patton in WWII in Africa, Italy and the Low Countries. His son served under Gen. Patton (his son) in Vietnam. Dad used to joke that he never understood why folks would jump out of a perfectly good helicopter. I didn't understand what that meant as a kid, but have grown to these days. He's still got a bum ankle that gouts up on him that he got from A School in San Antonio, delaying his shipping-out date by a few months.
Kentucky Windage Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 My father was in country '68 to '69 as well. He served in the Air Force in recon assignments out of De Nagn. All that I ever get out of him is that he would go out into the jungle to setup radio intercept stations along side with small combat units. He'll tell me that he lost a lot of good friends there. So i have no doubt he saw his fair share of the fight. I also have a great uncle Johnny who served under General Patton as a tank driver. Uncle Johnny personally met and had a conversation with General Eisenhower, the details of which I don't know. He was in Italy and later the Battle of the Bulge. My grandfather was in the Navy and drove the Higgins boats at the landings in Africa and Italy. He was home at the end of 1944. My great uncle James fought in the battle of Normandy as a medic. He was wounded in the neck from a gunshot and later came home thereafter. Thanks for sharing!!!
Jim Schue Posted June 19, 2018 Author Posted June 19, 2018 My father was in country '68 to '69 as well. He served in the Air Force in recon assignments out of De Nagn. All that I ever get out of him is that he would go out into the jungle to setup radio intercept stations along side with small combat units. He'll tell me that he lost a lot of good friends there. So i have no doubt he saw his fair share of the fight. I also have a great uncle Johnny who served under General Patton as a tank driver. Uncle Johnny personally met and had a conversation with General Eisenhower, the details of which I don't know. He was in Italy and later the Battle of the Bulge. My grandfather was in the Navy and drove the Higgins boats at the landings in Africa and Italy. He was home at the end of 1944. My great uncle James fought in the battle of Normandy as a medic. He was wounded in the neck from a gunshot and later came home thereafter. Thanks for sharing!!! Decent-to-good chance your Uncle Johnny and my grandpa crossed paths.
Kentucky Windage Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Starting a new thread to discuss this topic. Please, give @Jim Schue information on Tulsa, Oklahoma here.
Jim Schue Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 Windy out here. Kinda disappointed I haven't seen much cotton, and most of the oil wells we saw were in Illinois. Lots of cattle though. Somehow or another the hotel we're staying at for Dad's group's gathering is also hosting at least 5 HS boys' hoops teams at the Oral Roberts U. camp across the street. Couldn't get a swim in tonight. Mom said there was a choir group of 100+ but she wasn't sure where from. Did I mention we're across the street from ORU? And next door to a megachurch? There's a Walmart behind us. I've been told this is Christian Central, and I'm inclined to believe it. We had dinner at casino I think is tied to the Osage, but I'm not sure. I won about $10 on video poker. Yet, after coming back from dinner and having a couple drinks in the conference room with my parents and Dad's buddies, I went outside for a smoke and a walk to stretch the legs. I come into the hotel bar and it's full of a gathering — someone's going-away party — of what appears to be significant cohort of Tulsa's gay male population of about 35 or so. I couldn't help but laugh at the irony, given the location. Something tells me it wasn't on accident, either. :lol2:
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