He admits he was totally uninformed and had no idea what was going on in the world. Eventually, he spent fourteen months in Vietnam. Krebsbach, a farm boy from Iowa, was only twenty-one when he enlisted in 1968 after being told that he would receive his draft notice the first week of January 1969. Then we have to start all over again.” In fact, as Krebsbach states that nobody said hello or goodbye as people just disappeared. We all come home dead, they just forgot to bury some of us. As Fred Krebsbach in his memoir OKAY OKAY Holy Sh*T Vietnam quotes one of his buddies: “there is no glory in war and no glory in life after Vietnam. It claimed the lives of millions of civilians on both sides as well as countless soldiers who were physically and psychologically injured when it was over. The war in Vietnam or as more formally known as the Second Indochina War began in 1955 and ended in 1975 when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon.
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