Oral History Program - Veterans Remember Vietnam War

VETERANS REMEMBER

		"I had the impression that what the South Vietnamese...really wanted to do was to be able to get up in the morning, do their job, grow rice, feed their family, observe the sun go down at the end of the day, do the same thing the next day. And they don't care about the political system."
Ken Jobe Ken Jobe served as an engineer officer during the height of the Cold War, including the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He pulled a tour in peacetime Korean with the 44th Engineer Battalion, and served with B Company, 577th Engineer Battalion in Vietnam, seeing action along the often contested Route One, along the South China Sea.		> Abstract > Interview (Audio) > Photos