Welcome Home! Thank you for your service! 🇺🇲

Love this and love you! Thank you for your service!! Proud to call you my Dad!!!

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks you Son. I am proud of you and your family more then you will never know how much. Maybe your great, grand-children will be able to know me a little.

@paulwasson5017

Жыл бұрын

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@kentgregory3299

Жыл бұрын

You should be proud. Seems like a great man.

@Bass_Playa_Two_Point.O

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and your family for their sacrifice.

@TRIChuckles

2 ай бұрын

A late view, but what a great family you must be! An incredible story. Thank you

God bless you for sharing

@jeffbic917

10 ай бұрын

Thank you Manfred ~ Much appreciated 'Bic' 08-26-2023

Sitting in a Water treatment control container for a tunnel project, on nightshift in Brisbane, Australia. Have been listening to the Vietnam Atlanta history series for a while. Geez "Bic", you had a tough start with your early life with your Mum's polio situation, sounds like you had a great family with all that support. Hats off to you Bic and all the other Vietnam Veterans.... I've heard some amazing stories of Mateship and survival.....thanks Bic and your fellow servicemen for sharing these stories and also Atlanta history organisation for making possible.

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Chip. And 'Hat's off to you too Mate' for the kind words and wishes. All the best, 'Bic' 08-2022

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Chip. I appreciate your your comments. All the best to you Mate. God bless. 'Bic'

Sad hearing about his mother. My mother survived TB , just pulled through.

Good story, nice guy, tough life and made a good life. Great attitude.

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Joe. Life is good and I am glad I am living it. Many didn't. All the best to you, 'Bic'

Thank you for sharing..... RVN 1968

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Welcome Home Dennis. Glad we both made it back. At 21 it was an intense time in my life. Now it has made me stronger. I wish you health and good time my Brother, 'Bic' 08-222

Thank you for your service

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Rich ~ Thank you for your note and acknowledgement. Proud to have service in US Army Aviation in Vietnam. Still doing well and hope to continue. You do the same my friend. 'Bic' 08-2022

Thank you for the interview and stories. It was uplifting and fun to listen to. I'm glad you had a positive tour and made it back in one piece. I was sorry to hear about your parents and brother. Happy to hear that you stay connected with your buddies. Regards!

Thank you Bick!

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jimmy & Kathy. Appreciate you more then you know. 'Bic' Bickerton 3/25/2021 now near ATL

Thank You for Your service

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Ruby ~ After coming home in '69 to a hostel, so called 'peace' movement, your comment is very much appreciated. God bless, 'Bic' Bickerton 3/25/2021

God Bless You Abundantly Thank You for Your Service Amen

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

HE has in many ways. Thank you for your nice comment and wishes Samuel. 'Bic' Bickerton 3/25/2021

Great interview

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

BB ~ I wish I knew it was to be put on KZread, I would have made up some better war stories. Thank you Bob. 'Bic' 08-2022

I was very intrigued by your life story. I was hooked when you accounted for DH Beavers and Otters, which every day flew over where I grew up. (My bucket list still includes a flight in a Wright powered beaver.) I have listened to many of these accounts, and I am very glad that I did not miss yours. Live long and healthy!

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks you Lorne. I didn't know this was on KZread until today 03/25/2021. The audio is poor and I left so much out but I am proud to have told a little of my story and proud to have serviced my great country. 'Bic Bickerton near ATL

@jimtrent2125

2 жыл бұрын

hikkl. mmmm..mmmmmmmmm

@richardlong8014

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service.

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

@@jimtrent2125 Hikki - back at you my friend. 'Bic'

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

@@richardlong8014 ~ Thank you Rich ~ I was proud to have serviced. 'Bic'

I'm sorry to hear about your mother. People need to know about the suffering that polio causes so that we have higher vaccination rates. It's a pleasure to hear you speak, thanks. Jets flying over me as a child gave me the aviation bug, too: B-52s in Dayton, Ohio back in the 70s and 80s. =D

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate your note Joe. Thank you so much ~ Still doin' well, 'Bic' 08-2022

@RiDankulous

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffbic917 👍🙏

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

@@RiDankulous Thank Joe, 'Bic'

@packrat76

11 ай бұрын

Total polio cases (combined wild and circulating vaccine-derived) have dropped 97.5% from 35,251 (reported) in 1988 to 894 (confirmed) in 2022. Of the three strains of WPV, the last recorded wild case caused by type 2 (WPV2) was in 1999, and WPV2 was declared eradicated in 2015.

I knew a Vietnam Veteran years ago whose father was a WWII marine died on his second tour in Vietnam so he had to go home for the funeral and return to Vietnam. Tough deal. 😢

GREAT SORRY SIR THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

SS Jon ~ Appreciate your reply and acknowledgement. I am still proud to have service in US Army Aviation in Vietnam. Still doing well and hope to continue. You do the same Jon. 'Bic' 08-2022

Excellent!

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Dear DW Ohio ~ Thank you DW for the 'Excellent'. Much appreciate! Still trying to stay excellent, 'Bic' - 08-2022

At 57 I can’t remember much about my work life between 17 and 21. But with all that drama going on, I guess you would remember quite a lot.

@donaldjones7678

3 жыл бұрын

I remember a lot too. I was a grunt Vietnam 1971. Most intense time of my life.

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tommy. appreciate your comment. 'Bic' Bickerton 3/25/2021 now near ATL

@mebeasensei

3 жыл бұрын

@@donaldjones7678 a friend of mine was born ‘52. His mother and him decided that the best strategy was to fast. He lost so much weight he was rejected at medical or whatever it was called when you first showed up for registration. He did later join the Peace Corps. I think the whole experience had an effect on him. He never settled down or was at peace. Finally, got an English teaching job in Japan and found the rhythm of that life a framework to survive.

Much respect.

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 'LB'.....and may you never be Left Behind. Much appreciated, 'Bic' Bickerton 3/25/2021 now 74 living near ATL

Enjoyed your IFR experience. I had a similar one in a snow storm doing a cross country.

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

Yikes. Glad you made it safely down Jess. 'Bic' 3/25/2021

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

WOW Jess, glad you made it safely down to mother earth. Nothing like learning to fly by almost killing yourself making a poor decision. Thanks for your Reply to my story. Much appreciated, 'Bic' 08-2022

What an amazing man.

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Not so Jill, but I was very lucky and I am very proud to have served. God bless and thanks, 'Bic' 08-2022

could this b any longer?

@TRIChuckles

2 ай бұрын

Why watch? It is a little long but I enjoyed his story.

Bic Id love to know move about those low flying helicopters

Pinelawn is the name, my father is also buried there.

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

You got it J Clif. Thanks, 'Bic' 3/15/2021

Why does description say he was a helicopter pilot?

@AtlantaHistoryCenter

2 жыл бұрын

Good catch, Mr. Young--thank you for letting us know.

@benyoung552

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtlantaHistoryCenter Hey no problem. Wasn’t trying to call you out on it really, but I was waiting for him to tell about how he switched from fixed wing to helicopter pilot at some point, but never did. Lol. Great interview btw. Love these very much. This is about my 3rd or 4th video I’ve watched of yours so far.

@AtlantaHistoryCenter

2 жыл бұрын

@@benyoung552 we are glad you're enjoying them! We are honored to preserve and share them.

Why dont yall scan those pics so we can see them

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

I was not in control of the agenda at the ATL History Ctr but you can see those and other "Otter' pics I took on our Military Company's website: sites.google.com/view/18-54aviationotternest . Check the PHOTOS Page. Thanks you Harold. I didn't know this was on KZread until today 03/25/2021. The audio is poor, sorry. 'Bic Bickerton near ATL

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Audio sucks.

@jeffbic917

3 жыл бұрын

You are so right Martin. I was not in control of the agenda or the audio at the ATL History Ctr but maybe my grand-children & great Grands will one day be glad to hear my voice, even if it's bad quality. Be well and thanks for listening. I didn't even know this was on KZread until today. 'Bic' Bickerton 3/25/2021

great interview, but the interviewer interupting all the time was anoying

@jeffbic917

Жыл бұрын

Thanks you Chris ~ I talked too much and maybe he was trying to get me to the end. But appreciate your watching that long story of a kid just trying to make it though life. So far, so good. All the best, 'Bic' 08-2022