The Lucky Few

All of the refugees of the Viet Nam war can consider ourselves lucky, and we have all benefitted from the actions of thousands of people we will never meet.

But there is a particular story that encapulates the spirit of the Vietnamese refugee and the heart of the American sailor. It's the story of the USS Kirk FF-1087, and it's told very well a video called The Lucky Few. You can view it at the link below, where it is broken up into 10 short chapters.

The Lucky Few, from US Navy TV

Still Serving

Clicking here opens the story in a new page:

Vietnam-Era Draftees, Still On Duty In U.S. Army

Ken is retired from a career in the Air Force, and spent a lot of time at Da Nang Air Bass during the war. He has no doubt that the U.S. and its allied forces would have won war on the ground if they had not been pulled out by Washington. After Viet Nam, he settled in Chandler, AZ, but he and his wife spend the hottest part of the summer in San Luis Obispo, CA.