Good Morning Viet.......Nam!!!
I just couldn't resist. I am a Vietnam Era Vet and I am married to a Vietnam Vet as well. We met in the Navy in 1974 and after the Fall of Saigon we went our seperate ways. Long story short, we were reunited after he found me on classmates.com and called, 34 years later! We were married 35 years to the weekend, that he left for Vietnam in 1975! We were both Dental Technicians (who subsequently serve as medics/corpsman in time of war) and served together in San Diego. Robb has a lovely daughter, Jennifer and four grandchildren,
Cheyenne, Maddie, Dalton, and Miss Jade! I have a wonderful daughter, Malia (and her husband David, my son-in-love) and a terrific son, Matthew (and his new wife Angela, my daughter-in-love). Matthew and Angela have a great daughter Lexie who is fifteen! Robb and I lost a beloved son at birth in 1975, after whom the book I wrote in 1999 is named, HIS NAME IS ROBBIE. I wrote this book after going to Vietnam on a humanitarian/medical mission with an incredible group, VETS WITH A MISSION, after reading about them in Oliver Norths Return to Vietnam. Vets with a Mission is a group of Vietnam Vets that travel back to Vietnam and build clinics and treat patients and do their best to make a better way of life for the people they endeavored to help so many years ago and with whom they share a common suffering, in an effort to bring reconciliation. When I went, I experienced an enormous amount of healing and the journal entries I made on China Beach became a book! I thought that His Name Is Robbie, was the end of the story...until Robb and I were reunited! So, now the story continues and the sequel is yet to be written! Thanks be to God Who loves us so much more than we can ever ask, think, or imagine and loves to give us good gifts. To God be the Glory! Let's Eat! -tinamarie
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