Personal Narrative: Life In Vietnam

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country. Before he goes back to the USA he has about 10days left in Vietnam, the new replace is coming to take over, he in a rice paddy and his team got ambush he told me he got 2 choose the first one is lay down and die or he can get fight and die. He is a very brave person he told me that he not a quitter, so he grabs a gun and he tries to fight his heart the sound of the bullet hit his head and he told me that he knows his name he thought he was dead, but he gets lucky and he doesn't die. He believes that in that time he gets shot he believe god is right there he confirm god is right there, and all of his team they just ran away but he can survive and pass that moment by a miracle. After he gets back to the A team camp, B team calls him …show more content…
Before he went to the Vietnam War, he do not like people that protesting about Vietnam, but when he came back to the Vietnam he went to the North Carolina they make him to be instructed in special force. Also, when he came back from Vietnam they make him to be instructed in the John F. Kennedy center for the special war far from the Green Beret teaching man to become the Green Beret but he does not like this job at all he told me that it is a worst job that he ever has. He has to stand up and talk about the gun its M-16 gun, but in the Vietnam War they use a very old gun in the war. During in the war time he has a girl in his back home, but he did not know they were girlfriend or boyfriend or not, but when he was in basic training they write letters back and forward together but finally in the last they did not work together. In 1963 he was sent to the Germany and his camp is in the büren. His team has been the first American since the Vietnam War. The people in the büren did not happy so much that the American people come to his town. He think in the Germany is more severe that in the …show more content…
When he was in Mekong delta they have no anything they have canal and river made by France in 1950 if you did not go by boat you did not go any where no car no store not have anything the transport over there just only by boat. The biggest problem is a lot of people come back from the Vietnam War they was affected is they want berserk.
Everything during in the Vietnam War still be a memory in his heart all the time, he have to patient with everything, he lost his friends he saw dead body he saw his friends get shot. He is a very strong man he passes a lot of moments that he almost die in the war everything make him to be a real man. In September 17,1967 he got back from Vietnam War to his hometown When the airplane landing down the captain say “gentlemen the great full nation is waiting you” he told us he saw just only protester and just only 10 peoples thanks him for his service. When he got back to the USA a lot of people call him a baby killer woman killer, but he says that is not what he did in the Vietnam War. After he got back for 3 days in September 21,1967 he got married with his new girlfriend that talk to for a year but, in 1983 before anniversary, they broke up together, he almost

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