
A View From The Back Row…
Vietnam | 1964 – ’73
Vietnam War veterans often say, “I left Vietnam, but Vietnam never left me.” At its height in the late 1960′s, some 500,000 Americans were deployed to Southeast Asia, thousands of them from Texas. The Lone Star State was second only to California in the number of its sons and daughters sent to Vietnam. When their nation called, Texans of every stripe left the small towns and big cities and farms and ranches to serve in every capacity in the difficult and bloody fight. Read some of their stories below.
Vietnam | 1964 – ’73
Poteet, TX | Army, 1970 – ’71
Henderson, TX | Army, 1968 – ’69
Houston, TX | Army, 1967 – ’68
Austin, TX | Army, 1968
Killeen, TX | Army, 1971
Aransas Pass, TX | Army, 1965 – ’68
Sanford, TX | Navy, 1967 – ’69
Gunter, TX | Army, 1967 – ’68
Vietnam | 1964 – ’73
Fort Worth, TX | Marines, 1968
Austin, TX | U.S. Air Force
San Antonio, TX | Army, 1968 – ’69
San Antonio, TX | Air Force, 1968
Wichita Falls, TX | Army, 1968 – ’69
Port Neches, TX | Marines, 1968 – ’70
Duncanville, TX | Marines
Lubbock, TX | Navy, 1972 – ’73
Beeville, TX | Marines, 1967 – ’68
Falfurrias, TX | Marines, 1969 – ’70
Groves, TX | Navy, 1966 – ’69
Fritch, TX | Army, 1967
Cairo, NY | Marines, 1970 – ’71
San Antonio, TX | Army, 1971
Alvin, TX | Marines, 1968
San Antonio, TX | Army
Canyon Lake, TX | Air Force, 1971 – ’72
Alice, TX | Marines, 1968
Burton, TX | Army, 1968
El Paso, TX | U.S. Army
Greenville, TX | Army, 1967 – ’68