Vietnam ERA Signal OCS

SIGNAL CORPS OCS CLASSES

VIETNAM ERA

All of the classes shown above have either pictures, candidate
stories, biographies, military jokes, or Army music attached.
Click to enjoy these pages!

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You were probably too busy while you served in Vietnam to spend any time
listening to Vietnamese folk music. What, with all of those trips to the PX,
swimming on the beach at Nha Trang, drinking beer at the Duy Tanh Hotel while
you listen to that cute little Philippine singer belt out her version of the
popular tunes of the times—and trips into town to visit the local massage
parlor—there really wasn’t a lot of time left over for you to seek out local
culture, right? Yeah, we thought so.

Too bad though, because if you did you would have heard some of the most
hauntingly beautiful music ever composed. The music player below has a piece on
it for you to listen to. Click on it and you’ll see why the Vietnamese say that
their traditional folk music seems as though it has been written to tug at your
heart strings when you are away from home. Many say that when they travel the
world and hear music from their homeland, like that below, it brings tears to
their eyes, making them miss their family, friends and country too.

For this author, when I listen to this kind of music it reminds me of the
pristine, peaceful, quiet beauty of Vietnamese rice paddies, stretching for
miles across valleys, as far as the eye can see. Or the verdant, piercing green
of the delta area, interspersed with chest deep dark water supporting thousands
of water plants, floating in the light and shade, displaying every color of
green from the darkest emerald green highlighted by shafts of light through the
jungle canopy, to the lime and leek greens of the bamboo shoots that blocked our
movements as we tried to patrol through this viridis symphony—all
sleepily still and peaceful, dreamlike in its beauty… until the crack of the
first RPG.

Enjoy the music. Let it take you back to your time in Vietnam… those few,
precious moments when life felt not just the most alive it’s ever been, but the
most peaceful too.

Vietnamese Dan Bau Music

We are looking for pictures to post on each Class Page. If
you are a class member and have pictures of yourself or other class members,
submit them to us and we will post
them on your class page. While storage space is somewhat limited, we have room
for audio and video submissions too. We also post OCS class member stories in
other places on this website. If you have audio recordings of your time in OCS,
or Vietnam, or videos that can be digitized, or if you have been writing down your
memories, send them to us and we will post them. Help us build a National
Archive of this most important time in our Nation’s history. To learn more, click
on the Web Submissions link above. Thank you. 

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