After 9 months at Phu Bai I was sent to the 3 RRU at Tan Son Nuit Air Base next to Saigon. After two months there I was discharged and sent home August 1965.

I did get to see a lot of Vietnam most soldiers did not. The war had not started to escalate until my last six months. Hue the old capital where the Emperor lived in his walled Citadel, moat and all. I did get to see his Throne Room but before I had a decent camera. He had a solid gold chair and table. I have a poor picture of the table. By the time I bought a better camera they would not let us in. If I can remember right there were three 25 foot walls and one moat around his home. Hue was 7 miles north of Phu Bai were I was stationed. We only went there in the daytime by bus.

Hue is where I learned to like Chinese food. Vietnamese food is very bland. We would rent bicycles for about $.04 an hour or hire a cyclo driver for less the one dollar a day. I did go into a few Vietnamese houses. They wanted to find out how Americans lived. One fellow owned a shop and lived in the back. He was studying English. He ask me to explain " Backwoods" He was reading about Abraham Lincoln. That was hard to do, most of Vietnam was backwoods.

Phu Bai was several small groups of houses most with grass roofs. We were not allowded to go there.

I liked the Vietnamese people. They were very honest to me. They never stole anything from anyone I knew. Most of my contacts with them were workers on post or in shops and bars. I was told it was against the law for a Vietnamese female to talk to an American on the street. They would arrest the female. I don't know if this was true or not. The law was to keep the ladies from luring us into capture. They sure did talk a lot inside, mostly " You buy me Drink".

Most of the photos on my Vietnam pages were taken with a Minolta SR-7 and the Hue photos were taken with a half frame Olympus. All were 35mm slides. They were made digital with a Xtend-a-Slide™ conversion system. Purchased at: