APO Vietnam

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When sending mail home from Army Post Office Vietnam, we didn’t have to put postage on the letters. This made it very easy to write and send a lot of letters which I did.

 

 

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APO Vietnam

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Hey, I really appreciate all you people out there that wrote me letters in Vietnam, it kept me going.

 

 

While in Vietnam, getting mail from home was one of the highlights of my day, so I wrote a letter home just about everyday. Every time she got a letter from me, my Mom wrote me a letter back. My cousin Rick was at a different location in Vietnam the same time I was there, so my Mom and Dad, his Mom and Dad, and some friends of theirs called Jim and Lois Dunklin would get together at one another’s house in the evenings and drink tea, shoot the breeze, and read mine and Ricks letters home to each other. About once a month while I was in Vietnam, I would request that my Mom send me a care package from home with fresh baked cookies, cakes, candy and the like. I would always share with my buddies there each time I received a Mom care package in the mail. My Mom filed all of my letters home in a three hole note book and gave it to me about 20 years after I came home. I showed the book and letters to my daughter Tamara one time when she came home to visit. She said she would like to have the letters so I gave them to her right then. Tamara is now the keeper of all those wonderful information filled letters I sent home.

 

My beautiful daughter Tamara has been entrusted with my letters from Vietnam. 

 

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My aunt Crystal, who was always trying to get me married off, gave the younger sister of her son Norman’s wife my address and suggested she write me while in Vietnam also. She did and I wrote her back every time she wrote me. I had never met her, but I enjoyed getting the mail. When I was discharged, I went to Houston to visit my friend Monroe, and I went to her house and met her and her family and thanked her for writing me in Vietnam. I had dinner with her and the family, and that was the last time I ever saw her. I hate to admit it, but I have forgotten her name.

 

 

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If you know any single men or women in the armed forces stationed overseas that you might write to, getting mail from the USA was always the highlight of my day while in Vietnam, and I’m sure they would appreciate hearing from home.

 

 

 

Thanks for reading APO Vietnam,

Bill