DAV of Minnesota Veteran Spotlight: Vietnam Veteran Oather Martin
Description
Oather Martin was 17 when he joined the Army and was recruited for missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In this unfiltered conversation, Oather recounts 15 months of deniable operations, advising the teenage soldiers of the 36th Vietnamese Rangers and vanishing across the Cambodian border. He describes two combat wounds—one from a bamboo booby trap to the face, the second when a rocket attack buried him beneath fallen comrades. After the war he returned to a nation that denied him his rights, was married within three months, and fought the VA for fifty-five years before winning one hundred percent disability on the side of a Minnesota road. This is not the typical Vietnam story; it is history told by the man who lived it. Listen now wherever you get podcasts and share it with a veteran who needs to know they are not alone.
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