John Sonneveld - R & R

Running time
1 min 6 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs

Transcript

On those rare days, I've told you, I got involved in an adoption. So I'd get to Baria, or something like that, and twice I got to Saigon to do with the adoption, but they were rare days off. I'd hitch a ride on a Caribou, get there and come back. And so I only ever got into Vung Tau, which was one great big whorehouse I might add, on, I think, one or two nights, and spent most of the night keeping me out of trouble and the other bloke with me... they had R&C, which is, where people got a week, or a few days off, and they went down to that area.

I didn't get that. I got R&R and I came home very briefly…I was nine months and three weeks before I got to come home on R&R. And my wife didn't think I'd come back. For the last three months she thought... She was pretty close to being right too.

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