This sunday will be the last Nam adventure. Before the characters move on to their next time period. So I though I would put up some of the pics in my nam archive.
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Dad, whats vietnam?
Do you really want YOUR dads explanation of the war? ;-)
it was fun until the log ride broke down, no, that was a quote from some old Vietnam video tv comercial, "Dad, whats vietnam?" que announcer "A childish question, but not a childish asnwer" it popped in my head from some stupid reason
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