Fall of Saigon: Where were you on April 30th, 1975?

[Mr Ed]

At Leighton Barracks, Wuerzburg, West Germany.  3 years into my 1st military affiliation.

[The Rooster]

I watched it on TV. I was 12.

 

6 years away from my enlistment.

[268th C.A.]

High School...Oh yeah, I remember it well. Glad I missed it. Born deaf in one ear. I guess a blessing that I didn't think was. saw many of the older neighbours. returning. Guys were giving me stuff they didn't want the bad memories.   They just wanted to forget it. that was one war that I saw no need to fight. Politicians would let it end. Seems like the ones that followed were just as bad.  

Welcome Home Veterans ! 

[Thor996]

Just a kid in grade school who watched on the evening news.

[Linedoggie]

P.S.-107Q Flushing Queens 6th grade I remember seeing the VNAF Hueys pushed over the side of the US Carriers on TV

[268th C.A.]

High School and remember it well... Glad it was over. 

[P-59A]

I was 13 years old. My dad watched the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite every evening. My dad never said a word. He got out of the AirForce in 62 and had friends that stayed in. Many years later we went to visit the traveling wall. He pointed out their names to me.

[GAZOO]

H.S. One month before Army Basic Training,

[MinutemanEMTer]

I was also 13. But very informed from my SMsgt. Air Force father. I was one of the very few in my class that knew what was happening over there and here. Probably more than my teacher.

[Marshallj]

Active duty AF and was stationed at Rickenbacker AFB OH then. 

[rtd_sf_eng]

Fort Bragg, 5th SFGA.  Knew it would happen, not just when.

[BryanJ]

Jr. in High School, four years before Army ROTC and Airborne School in the summer of 1979.  I’m sure my feelings then were about the same as now, how could we have lost tens of thousand of service members in a campaign that went so wrong, and what did we learn to make sure it never happens again?

[Warren]

A junior in college, saw it on the news that evening.