Bill Vandenbush joined the U.S. Army in 1968. When he got to Vietnam, the war zone wasn’t what he expected.
“It was much more frightening than I ever imagined,” he said during a talk he gave to a prison audience, which was videotaped and shared on YouTube by NDE Accounts.
He spent 10 months in combat as an infantry soldier. Fire fights and big battles were a common experience for him, as were watching both his friends and the enemy die.
He made a pact with two friends, John and Hank. The trio would protect each other and cover each other’s backs. “I learned that three or four or five people are much stronger than an individual,” he said….