In These I Do Pray

                                   PTSD Is Hell

~My every night before I sleep

I pray my God to hear~

~To heal this pain inside of me

take away my fear~

~With every beat of my heart

every breath I take~

~I pray my life anew will start

the morn when I awake~

~No more nightmares of the war

peace within my sleep~

~Take away these Hellish horrors

within my mind I keep~

~Let me live a normal life

once again to love~

~Take away my aching strife

imprisoning me in of~

~My memories bring me so much pain

at times of wanting death~

~Sometimes going near insane

never feeling rest~

~I pray one day I find my way

back to sanity~

~No longer fearing the coming day

dwelling inside of me~

~Ending this loneliness pulling me apart

once again to love~

~Mending the wound within my heart

in that I do pray of~

~With every beat of my heart

every breath I take~

~I pray my life anew will start

the morn when I awake~

~To once again take long walks

not fearing from aback~

~Or wondering if people will gawk 

causing me to snap~

~Have my children respect me

visiting out of love~

~Not for what they want in greed

in that I do pray of~

~To remember their times of youngering 

when our lives were close~

~When Daddy was their everything

instead of being cold~

~And when I am gone to think of me

remembering all that was~

~To proudly announce He was my Daddy

 in that I do pray of~

~My every night before I sleep

I pray my God to hear~

~To heal this pain inside of me

take away my fear~

Duke Sherman

Sgt, US Army

Vietnam Veteran

P>T>S>D

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused by exposure to a traumatic event or experience, which causes people to feel fear, anger and helplessness. It especially affects those who have experienced violent assaults, either to themselves or others, natural disasters or catastrophes caused by individuals, and military combat. PTSD can be difficult to diagnose because many people do experience intense emotions, such as shock and fear, after traumatic experiences, but it is those that have these feelings over longer periods of time, such as a month, who are more likely to have PTSD

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We Were Soldiers II

A Traitor to America

G-Troop

2/11 ACR

And 25th Inf

Ambush Patrol

1972

~We were Soldiers one and all

fighting for our flag~

~We saw our brothers fall by fall

go home in Body bags~

~We could hear their cries of death

fighting to the end~

~Gasping to breathe their last breath

many were my friends~

~Throughout the day into the night

unto the next of day~

~Charlie hit us hard in Fire fights

but we made him pay~

~Ten of us one hundred of them

a terrible cost of life~

~Battles lasting to never end

striking from their hives~

~Compounded by lasting rains

saturating all around~

~Causing some to go insane

but still we held our ground~

~Back home they protested us

siding with the Cong~

~Burning our flag with Discuss

saying we were wrong~

~Jane Fonda played a Traitors game

posing on their guns~

~An enemy to us America’s shame

collaborating scum~

~She supported the enemy’s every lie

with her evil slurs~

~While our soldiers fought for their lives

in defense of hers~

~Our brothers sitting in rat filled cells

one hundred yards away~

~Hotel Hanoi their private Hell

suffering every day~

~Fifty eight thousand two hundred plus

gave their precious lives~

~Believing in what we thought was just

protecting freedoms right~

~No heroes welcome or job well done

when we came home~

~We were no better than horses dun

we would stand alone~

~They spit on us and called us names

Baby killers from Hell~

~Only adding to memories of pain

many we could not tell~

~For some of us the war goes on

every night we dream~

~We find ourselves back in Nam

waking in a scream~

~Relationships are not as they fail

scaring those away~

~Some find themselves locked in jails

minds gone astray~

~Caused by being hooked on dope

coping with the pain~

~Giving up loosing all their hope

and going insane~

~In the end many take their own lives

after surviving the Nam~

~Leaving behind children and wives

in pain and dwelling on~

~We were Solders one and all

fighting for our flag~

~We saw our bothers fall by fall

go home in Body bags~

~We wait our turn to join with them

to end our ever pain~

~When Azriel takes us at our end

to the Soldier’s hall of fame~

Duke Sherman

Sgt,USA 

G-Troop, 2/11 ACR

Vietnam 1971-1972

Black Horse Soldier

Once A Soldier Always A Soldier Will Die A Soldier

 Dedicated to my Brothers at Arms

~I am a Veteran of the Vietnam war

Soldier born and bred~

~Been through battles great of horror

many friends lie dead~

~Charlie a Ghost afraid of nothing not

attacking day and night~

~From the depths of Hell the Demons fought

frighting Firefights~

~Two on two off and on again

guarding our precious ground~

~A thousand men did Charlie send

never made a sound~

~Behind and up within the trees

tunnels underground~

~Charlie came like Killer bees

swarming all around~

~One hundred times the count of ten

we fell them to the ground~

~At fighting’s end we searched for them

not a body found~

~Like that of Ghosts they disappeared

back to the depths of Hell~

~Leaving our soldiers to ponder fear

under the Demon spell~

~We searched for Charlie day and night

throughout the Hellish rain~

~Commenced another Firefight

felling many again~

~This was our tour of Hell on Earth

still haunting us today~

~The Vietnam veteran we who served

God Bless The USA~

Duke Sherman, Sgt

G-Troop, 2/11 ACR

Black Horse Soldier

Vietnam Veteran

1971 - 1972

The Green Berets

Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Trained to live off nature’s land
Trained in combat, hand-to-hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage peak from the Green Berets

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her his last request

Put silver wings on my son’s chest
Make him one of America’s best
He’ll be a man they’ll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret.

Soldiers of Vietnam

  

Soldiers of Vietnam were human but came home and were treated as dogs, spit on and called names. We never received the proper welcome and so many have died or are dying.

My brothers deserved better.

Duke Sherman 

POWs

Joe Muharsky's

POW/MIA Page

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A Tribute To The Men And Women Of The Armed Forces Of

Who Are Prisoners Of War Or Missing In Action

      

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As a tribute to any member of the Armed Forces of The United States Of America, MIA in Vietnam, I am proud to offer a free 8 X 10 picture of your loved one to any surviving family member free of charge.   There are no strings attached to this offer.  I will even pay the shipping charges to return the finished photo to you. Just send me the picture and the name as it appears on the Vietnam Memorial and I will create it in a transparency for you merged with your loved ones name on The Vietnam Memorial.  The original picture of the names on the wall is a copywrited picture so these pictures are not for sale.

Here is an example of what you will receive.

WO1  Dale Allan Pearce    MIA  17 MAY 1971

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For specific questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail  me.

Click on thumbnails to see larger sized copy.

Pictures are not shown in 8 X 10 or high resolution to conserve space.

Original photos are always shown on left and restorations to the right of original

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Colonel Gary G. Wright  United States Air Force  MIA  17 January 1967

  This picture was on the cover of the book "The Wall".  It depicts a Vietnam veteran holding up his young son to the Memorial touching the name of his grandfather Colonel Gary G. Wright,   U.S.A.F.  Colonel Wright was flying a F-4 Phantom over North Vietnam when he was reported Missing In Action on  17 January 1967.  Colonel Wright is also a Korean War Veteran and flew F-86 Saber Jets in Korea.   All these pictures were a gift to Colonel Wright's Son for the sacrifice he and his father made in service to his country.

  

  

  

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WO1 Dale Allen Pearce  United States Army  MIA 17 May 71

The original of this was a pen and ink drawing of my friend, WO1 Dale Allen Pearce, MIA 17 May 71.  I changed it to a photograph, colorized it, added a background, and did a transparency with his name on the Vietnam Memorial.

   

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The original of this picture was black and white. This is also Dale Allen Pearce. A new background was added, the photo was colorized, and various examples are shown.

   

  

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Commander Richard Rich  United States Air Force  MIA  19 May 1967

This is Commander Richard Rich   U.S.N.  who was reported Missing In Action on  19 May 1967 while flying an F-4 Phantom over North Vietnam.  These pictures were done for free for my friend, Commander Rich's son.

He never knew his Dad.

Original picture of Commander Rich is not shown.

   

POW/MIA

MIA Facts Site

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MIA Facts Site by Joe Schlatter Links on this page Purpose of this site Table of Contents and What's New Breaking News Purpose of this site This site is published to provide facts about  the issue of Americans who remain "missing in action" (MIA) from the Vietnam War.  At the conclusion of the Vietnam War,  2,583 Americans did not return.  A vast mythology has built up around what really happened to these individuals.   Misinformation, pseudo-history, and deliberate fabrication are  rampant.  As a result, myths are regularly proclaimed to be fact.  This site destroys those myths. The Myths:  Not all US POWs were released by their captors at the end of the Vietnam War. The U.S. government knew that all POWs were not released. U.S. POWs remain in captivity today. There is a conspiracy within the U. S. government to hide the continued imprisonment of Americans and, whenever the truth emerges, it is debunked. The U.S. government is doing nothing to account for or recover missing men.  The Facts:  All U.S. POWs captured during the Vietnam War were released, either at Operation Homecoming (spring, 1973) or earlier.  The only men captured and not released are 113 who died in captivity; their identities and the circumstances of their deaths are known; some of their remains have been recovered/returned.. No U. S. prisoners of war have been abandoned by the U. S. government. No U.S POWs remained in captivity after the conclusion of Operation Homecoming.  There is no conspiracy within the U. S. government to conceal the abandonment of prisoners of war (who were not abandoned in the first place).  No U.S. POWs from Indochina were taken to the Soviet Union, China, or any other third country. The U.S. government has been -- since well before the end of the Vietnam War -- exerting all possible efforts to recover or account for missing men.   That effort continues  today and is unprecedented in the history of warfare. Those who promote these false claims have produced a vast array of half-truth, untruth, hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and mythology.   The accumulated effect of years of nonsense has been exactly what one would expect:  The big lie has been accepted as truth in some quarters. How many Americans are "missing" in Southeast Asia? At the end of Operation Homecoming in the Spring of 1973, 2,646 Americans did not return from Southeast Asia -- they were "unaccounted for."  Since then,  957 have been "accounted for" by (1) recovering and identifying remains; (2) return of a small number of individuals after Operation Homecoming; (3) recovering the remains of several individuals as a group whose remains are not separately identifiable. Currently, 1,689 Americans are "unaccounted for" in Southeast Asia: Vietnam:   1,296 North Vietnam : 476 South Vietnam : 820 Laos :  328 Cambodia  :  58 China (territorial waters)  :  7 These figures were last updated on :  May 30, 2011 Figures include 468 at sea or overwater losses Click here for details on the number of missing. Click here to see a chart that lists the missing by service and by country of loss.