My High School Agriculture teacher was a Tank Crewman in WW11, he said the smell of blood could never be washed out of the damaged tanks.
We can never know what these men went through, thank you for sharing this.
I tend to believe that people who have lived the life of a soldier and seen war through the eyes of a soldier really don'tlike looking at war again. I always have a fear that I will see a face of someone I knew who was not as lucky as me. Korea was cold, Vietnam was hot, and both were horrible.
I know what you mean, Sawyer. I never went over, but clearly knew many men who did in the 60's. I did get at one time a list of all fatalities of the Viet Nam war, and there were names that seemed to be the same as men I knew. But, I will never know for sure.