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Howard White, 71, U.S. Army, 1967- 68.
White said he entered the Army in early 1967 and left in late 1968 that gave him nearly two years of active duty, most of it spent in Vietnam. He said he was supposed to be trained as a light mechanic but ended up in Vietnam as a gunner and radio operator on convoys.
“We had night convoys and they were just wiping us out like crazy,” he said, “Every night we’d get hit two or three different times on the different passes. The people that you knew, talked to and ate with, they got hit and we’d just pick them up and throw ‘em in the vehicles,” he said.
White was born and raised in Nampa, Idaho just a few miles west of Boise. Vietnam was the farthest away from home he has ever been.
He said it wasn’t all bad in Vietnam that he did share some good times with the friends he made. Some of those friends he still maintains contact with and has seen in recent years. He found beauty in the country and the people of Vietnam, citing the Montagnard people as some he grew to like and respect. He said he saw things in Vietnam he still doesn’t understand.
“ I think there was a lot of things that went on over there that shoud’na been goin’ on,” White said, “ but I guess that’s the way it is with any war, I don’t really think we had any business being over there in the first place, but it’s not for me to say.”
| Date Taken: | 09.27.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 11.08.2019 10:29 |
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| VIRIN: | 191101-Z-XK920-0023 |
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| Location: | BOISE, IDAHO, US |
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