Zippo Lighter from the Viet Nam war

[pdsimdars]

A friend posted this on FB

[volstork]

1. Same as it ever was...

n/t

[wasupaloopa]

2. I had one in Vietnam that read " Yea though I walk through the valley

of death, I shall fear no evil because I am the evilest mother fucker in the valley.”

The lighters were used for smoking and lighting huts on fire.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Whoa. That's kinda scary. War is hell, they say. nt

[wasupaloopa]

23. Which makes you wonder why so many

people support it.

[Wounded Bear]

17. And, as my DI used to say...

they make good sniper detectors.

Think about it.

[volstork]

19. That's the origin

of bad luck regarding three on a match: the first one the sniper notices, the second one he aims, and the third one...

[The Wizard]

21. I still have the one I got in 67

It reads: When I die bury me face down so the whole world can kiss my ass.

[mountain grammy]

3. Got a chuckle and a hell yeah

From the spouse. Vietnam 1970-71.

His zippo reads “if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.”

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. That song brings back some old memories.

Wasn't in 'Nam at the time but in the Army stateside.

[marble falls]

6. Man did my girlfriend at the time hate that song. We barely made it through one summer.

[mountain grammy]

8. Great song.

[Celerity]

5. it is from here

Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers' Engravings and Stories (1965-1973)

https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-Zippos-American-Engravings-1965-1973/dp/0226078280


Shedding a light on the psyche of war: Zippo lighters from U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam give a unique insight into life under fire

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171404/Zippo-lighters-U-S-troops-fighting-Vietnam-unique-insight-war-life.html

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Sure has some extended patina for it's age.

I have some similar ones in shiny condition.

That one looks like it's been through a war or something. (LOL)

Thanx for posting.

[kentuck]

9. Hot items on the Vietnam black market...

..for the flints.

They were used to set off their Bouncing Bettys.

[Augiedog]

10. And never pick one up off the ground. They were booby trapped, spin the wheel, blow yer hand off.

[Glorfindel]

11. I have two. One of them says

"Best of Luck from the Officers and Men, G2, I FIELD FORCE Vietnam." The other one says "Love and Kisses from the Ones Who Really Know You, Apollo and Joey."

The two lighters are among my most prized possessions. I was in RVN from December 1966 to December 1967. Just long enough to miss the Summer of Love in the US and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and to experience the turmoil of 1968 in this country.

[spike jones]

12. Consider this

Kill Anything That moves

http://americanempireproject.com/kill-anything-that-moves/

[DownriverDem]

13. My brothers

Both my brothers were in Viet Nam and one had a lighter similar to those. They were there in 68-69 and 70-71.

[demosincebirth]

15. Can't count the number of times I burned my lips, on a windy day, trying to re-lite my stoogie

[Raine]

16. and that's the truth

I remember the saying from that time.

[JayhawkSD]

18. We had Zippos in the Navy, too.

The lighter in this story, true story as it happens, was a Zippo. Happened about 1960 or so.

[CrispyQ]

20. Truth.

I came across this some time ago.

Wheat fell headless in the field
Till Death did reap enough.
We seek to bury the revealed
No earth is deep enough.
You cannot wash the stains from minds
No one can weep enough.
Nor shut the past behind the blinds
No night has sleep enough.

--Study member

A 50-Year Prospective Study of the Psychological Sequelae of World War II Combat

And then there's the classic: War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left.

[liberaltrucker]

22. My older brother had one that said

"Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity".

[niyad]

24. what were we supposed to be grateful for?

[burrowowl]

25. Great Post

brought back memories.

[Mr.Bill]

26. A friend of mine who is a Viet Nam Marine veteran

used to have a T shirt that said:

1972 Southeast Asian War Games - 2nd Place.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

27. Too many memories...

Was told that keeping it in was unhealthy, so I talked about things and lost a few friends. Oh well guess they weren’t good friends.