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Thanks, Marines.

JimMac and John, congrats on doing the great job I knew you would. Even after John went to the wrong school. And yall rag lieutenants about getting lost sheesh lol.

I just wish someone would have taped yalls class and then burned it to cds to share with us all. Maybe think about doing that next time. I'd gladly pay for one or two.

 Maybe next year you can bring in some light weapons to show the class their proper application.  Save the Ma Deuce for last.

 Glad it went good.

And the Australian USO girls in scanty costumes pictures are posted where?

Jimmy Mac & Treadhead

Did the exotic smells of Viet Nam come up in your discussion??  A few years ago when my niece was in Junior High they asked me to come speak, along with an Army Nam Vet.  He brought some jungle utes that he had in country.  The kids asked the usual questions and the one that got me was "What do you remember most" and to me it was getting off the freedom bird with the door opening and you got the big "Hello Viet Nam" in the nostrils.  I explained to the kids what the smell was and that after all of these years you could probably still smell it in his utes.  We passed them around and sure enough - "Yew, those stink" Twas a great moment!!!

Larry, in fact, we did speak of exotic smells and sanitation, as well as sleep deprivation and boredom.

So, Jim, did you and John show photos of burnin' sh!tters, or did you merely discuss it?  A scratch and sniff card would have been a nice touch.

Good on youse guys for passing the straight skinny to the kids. 

Bro Frank:  I have about 100 slides that I got converted to a cd.  For my "This Was Vietnam Show" I show the slides and have a running commentary.  Most of the slides I show for a few seconds and then move on to the next one.  I sometimes stay on one slide and tell a personal account that relates to that slide.  I note that 95% - 99% of the slides are of either "the rear" or places where the "bad guys" are not.  I further explain to the audience that during the non-quiet times I was normally too busy dodging bullets and RPGs to be able take photos.  Being a Cpl for my entire tour, I never burned a $hitter.  I also had not good reason to take a photo image of them being burned...thank you very much.

You two need to take your show on the road. Bring it down here and tell some of these liberal-assed HS teachers that Vietnam was not about American aggression, empire-building or Big Business.

The times they are a changing...and many of our teachers are using their classrooms as left-wing political soapboxes.

Nice to hear about a school where the teachers buy the VN vets a beer.

Big Al:

You two need to take your show on the road. Bring it down here and tell some of these liberal-assed HS teachers that Vietnam was not about American aggression, empire-building or Big Business.

The times they are a changing...and many of our teachers are using their classrooms as left-wing political soapboxes.

Wait until those young-uns get to college.  The university professors are horrible!!!  They'll never admit that Vietnam was the beginning of the end for Russian-backed communism.

I thought that my power point of RVN was much more poignant than John's beer pyramid slides from the rear and dancing Australian girls at the USO show. Seriously though, he had some awesome slides of him without his shirt on, and those big assed glasses that made him look like Austin Powers, tanker of mystery..  LOL

JimMc:

I thought that my power point of RVN was much more poignant than John's beer pyramid slides from the rear and dancing Australian girls at the USO show. Seriously though, he had some awesome slides of him without his shirt on, and those big assed glasses that made him look like Austin Powers, tanker of mystery..  LOL

LOL Jim here is a pic of who Bro John was known as back in those days. I learned this from reading Praying For Slack.

Mr Peabody on the left and Sherman/John on the right

BamaMarine7276:

JimMc:

I thought that my power point of RVN was much more poignant than John's beer pyramid slides from the rear and dancing Australian girls at the USO show. Seriously though, he had some awesome slides of him without his shirt on, and those big assed glasses that made him look like Austin Powers, tanker of mystery..  LOL

LOL Jim here is a pic of who Bro John was known as back in those days. I learned this from reading Praying For Slack.

Mr Peabody on the left and Sherman/John on the right

And THE WAY BACK MACHINE is behind us!!!

Rocky and Bullwinkle was my favorite show of all times, even to date. They were way ahead of their time. "Kill moose and squirrel."

JimMc:

Rocky and Bullwinkle was my favorite show of all times, even to date. They were way ahead of their time. "Kill moose and squirrel."

LOL Jim, I can still hear Boris saying that in that Russky accent lol.

Maybe I was just wierd, but I got turned on by Natasha.

Velcro:

Maybe I was just wierd, but I got turned on by Natasha.

LOL here ya go Bill, feed your fantasies lol

"Natasha, you evil doer from Ukraine, kill moose and squirrel." 

"Natasha, kee-el mooze un squir-ell"

Just after the presentation I asked one of the teachers if he would ask the kids to critique the presentations and send them to me so I could tailor-make the next presentation to be even more relevant.  I asked him to have the kids tell us what was cool, what was boring and what they'd do to make the presntation even better. 

Yesterday afternoon I got a rather thick packet in the mail from the high school where Jimmy Mac and I made our presentations to the two junior classes.  Inside were (maybe) 40 or 50 sheets of 8-1/2" x 11" paper with nice neat typed thank you notes from each of the kids in the two classes.  It is nice to have all the thank yous but I am sad to saythat pretty much each and every kid said the same thing: 

"Thank you.  It was nice to have someone who has been there tell their story (instead of reading out of a boring textbook).  I loved the flame-thrower tank pictures and I loved the story of Mr McPeak almost drowning (in a ditch?) and the big black Marine saving him.  I was so sad to hear that the man who saved him was killed a short time later." 

Oh well, so much for the changing to make the presentation better for nex time. 

"Oh well, so much for the changing to make the presentation better for next time."

John, and Jim... Considering that your Presentation was given an "attaboy" by all the students, I wouldn't think of making any changes.  Great Job, Guys !

I received the same letters and did not take it that way at all. I thought the kids were very sincere and were happy to have a different perspective of the war. Most kids thought the flamethrower tank was really "cool." So did I and I am 58.

And I thought the story of the young black Marien Marine saving your bacon from drowning was the highlight of the show.

EDIT:  Fat finger syndrome!!!

What is a black Marien?