From: David Bryant (wdbtchrm51@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 24 2006 - 16:37:54 PST
I did not know that. "Learn something everyday."
--- bolton8@juno.com wrote:
> During the Vietnam War between 5,000 to 7,000
> Canadian's crossed the
> border into the United States to join the US Army.
> We came in legally,
> obtaining a Green Card.
>
> We all went through the standard background
> investigation, most
> receiving the SECRET clearance. The Army could not
> levy a foreign
> national into a war zone, we had to volunteer for
> overseas duty.
>
> After serving my one year, I volunteered for a
> second tour, then a
> third. I had a Maple Leaf drawn on my helmet cover
> and carried a small
> Canadian Ensign with me. Still have the photo of it
> flying over the gun
> pit during Tet '68.
>
> Most Canadian's returned home and have a yearly
> reunion called 'Firebase
> Canada'.
> The Canadian Legion will not accept them as members.
> The Legion
> considers them "mercenaries, because they fought
> under a foreign flag".
>
> Six names on the Vietnam Wall are Canadian.
>
> As for the draft dodger's that went North, it was
> best summed up in the
> Toronto Globe & Mail: "The United States got the
> best of our young men,
> while we got the worst of their's."
>
> LANCE
>
>
>
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David B
MVPA 21443
Kaiser Jeep M51A2 1965
Kaiser Jeep M52A2 1967
Dodge M37 1953
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Case 580 1968
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