After a few delays, returning to America and then moving to London again according to love, John still could not escape the call of the army. He brought Lisa back to Milwaukee, held a simple wedding ceremony, and then enlisted.
On October 23, 1967, John Lindquist enlisted in the army. He did it in a light mood. John’s generation had grown up with an evident and pervasive anti-communist spirit. The songs that were heard many times were “Better Dead than Red” or “Kill A Commie for Mommie”.
The training session at Camp Pendleton was 19 days long: the Vietnamese battlefield was in urgent need of additional troops. Exactly 30/4/1968, John Lindquist boarded a plane to leave the United States.
John landed in Vietnam on May 4, on the payroll of the Headquarters, 3rd Division of the Marine Corps. He received his M16, stayed up one night. The sound of firecrackers from one side and the other resounded. Bright bullet trails across the sky. C-130s dropped flares all night.
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