gwb123 Posted April 30, 2015 Share #1 Posted April 30, 2015 Saigon fell on April 30th, 1975, forty years ago today. Where were you when you heard the news? (Image from http://www.psywarrior.com/VietnamOBPSYOP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atb Posted April 30, 2015 Share #2 Posted April 30, 2015 In the Army and stationed in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normaninvasion Posted April 30, 2015 Share #3 Posted April 30, 2015 In the womb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMCR79 Posted April 30, 2015 Share #4 Posted April 30, 2015 Junior year in High School in Massachusetts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rakkasan187 Posted April 30, 2015 Share #5 Posted April 30, 2015 9 yrs old, 4th Grade, Barron Elementry school, Salem New Hampshire.. Leigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFloyd Posted April 30, 2015 Share #6 Posted April 30, 2015 Chief of Targets, 432nd Reconnaissance Technical Squadron, Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SG_1st_Cav Posted April 30, 2015 Share #7 Posted April 30, 2015 I was finishing my BS degree at Cameron University in Lawton, OK. I was selected to finish my degree with a fully-funded under the old Enlisted Degree Completion Program. Only approximately125 enlisted were selected each year. I had to give the Army 4 years in return for the 2-year scholarship. This program was discontinued in 1976 or 1977. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardstripe Posted April 30, 2015 Share #8 Posted April 30, 2015 4th Finance Company, Ft Carson Colorado on alert! The whole 4th Infantry Division was marshaling at the rail yards to go back to Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Marine Posted April 30, 2015 Share #9 Posted April 30, 2015 I was a Lance Corporal on guard duty at Marine Detachment HQ-CINCLANT (Headquarters, Commander In Chief Atlantic Fleet) Norfolk, Virginia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish Posted April 30, 2015 Share #10 Posted April 30, 2015 Heard sitting in the day room at Hq Co 1/83 FA Baumholder West Germany. In the room were a number of senior NCO's and Officers who were shaking their head in dis-belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted April 30, 2015 Share #11 Posted April 30, 2015 Air Force ROTC Gettysburg College. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 30, 2015 Share #12 Posted April 30, 2015 elementary school. Use to watch the ABC evening news every night at 5pm with Harry Reasoner and Howard K Smith.Viet Nam live and in color.Kept looking to see if my cousin would appear in footae(wishful thinking of a kid).My best buddies brother in law was in the UDT and we played with the gear then. Reasoner had been a local boy at one time.May still have a relative or two around.Some cousins I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robswashashore Posted May 1, 2015 Share #13 Posted May 1, 2015 Freshman at Marquette University. It was discussed in great detail in my History class that afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bheskett Posted May 1, 2015 Share #14 Posted May 1, 2015 8th grade at Saline Middle School. I remember watching it on TV. The original stairs are at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids Michigan if you get a chance to check them out. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share #15 Posted May 1, 2015 Ironically, that is the day I signed a contract with the US Army ROTC that later led to my commission. It was not planned that way. It was a decision I had been contemplating after taking the first two years of courses. I can only wonder what my parents thought that night when I gave them the news at the dining room table, on top of the headlines that Saigon had fallen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted May 1, 2015 Share #16 Posted May 1, 2015 Slightly OT, as I wasn't born yet in '75, but on THIS 4/30, I got a call from a sort of long-lost (due to geographic distance) cousin that was a WIA OH-6A pilot, telling me there'll be a few waves of his Vietnam stuff heading my way. I sat down to do some research on his unit (3/4 Cav) and the date hit me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wharfmaster Posted May 1, 2015 Share #17 Posted May 1, 2015 I was on the job and many were disgusted at the news. I remember it well. You had to be there. Wharf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 1, 2015 Share #18 Posted May 1, 2015 Same place as normaninvasion...my mom was five months pregnant at the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbunnyB/3/75FA Posted May 1, 2015 Share #19 Posted May 1, 2015 as i was only 7 , probably in elementary school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1ashooter Posted May 1, 2015 Share #20 Posted May 1, 2015 I was a senior in HS just about to graduate. The news said the President would address that nation that evening. I had a sense of dread that we were going to go in and that I would get caught up in the war. When he announced that we weren't going to return to SVN I felt relieved but then thought what was this worth. Why did we loose all of these men. For what? I still don't have the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted May 1, 2015 Share #21 Posted May 1, 2015 I was in Junior High. I remember sitting in my bedroom building a model tank and watching it on the news. I just remember being shocked and angry over the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrobertscv Posted May 1, 2015 Share #22 Posted May 1, 2015 I was 14 and I remember how mad it made me, I grew up watching it on the news. I guess what made me so mad was that at least once every 3-4 months I went with my grandfather a WWII veteran to the local V.A. hospital and I remember all the young guys with missing limbs and disfigured bodies. Seemed like they had not only sacrificed, but had been sacrificed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choochoo Posted May 1, 2015 Share #23 Posted May 1, 2015 figment of my parent's imagination.... at least I'd like to think I was. My only personal connection to the war is that my dad would drive his friend down to Camp Pendleton to see their relatives who were awaiting immigration processing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garth Thompson Posted May 1, 2015 Share #24 Posted May 1, 2015 Student Naval Aviator NAS Pensacola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmanton Posted May 1, 2015 Share #25 Posted May 1, 2015 Ft. Lewis WA on my final assignment prior to retirement. Paul Salome, AZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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