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Annotation — Veterans Memorial Wall Songs

Sarge Lintecum was a veteran, who served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968, for twenty six months. His first tour was for eleven months, in the jungle with the 101st Airborne Division, doing search and destroy missions. His second tour was at E Company Support Battalion, at the base camp of the 101st Airborne Division, and his third tour was as a security guard with the elite Saigon Machine Gun Patrol.1 He released a few albums of Vietnam War-related material. On the blues rock album he released the song "Reunion at the Wall", which started out with the intro: "I'd like to dedicated this song to all the GIs whose names are on the Wall". The narrator said that he was going to the memorial wall in D.C. to visit his friends that he served with in Vietnam. Sources1vietnamblues.com — Sarge Lintecum↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — US Military & Veteran Songs

Sarge Lintecum was a veteran, who served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968, for twenty six months. His first tour was for eleven months, in the jungle with the 101st Airborne Division, doing search and destroy missions. His second tour was at E Company Support Battalion, at the base camp of the 101st Airborne Division, and his third tour was as a security guard with the elite Saigon Machine Gun Patrol.1 He released a few albums of Vietnam War-related material. On the blues rock album he released the song "Reunion at the Wall", which started out with the intro: "I'd like to dedicated this song to all the GIs whose names are on the Wall". The narrator said that he was going to the memorial wall in D.C. to visit his friends that he served with in Vietnam.Sources1vietnamblues.com — Sarge Lintecum↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

CD issue on Tempest Recording, barcode 6 42973 71452 4. The front cover is a sepia photograph of the long-bearded Sarge Lintecum in sunglasses, superimposed over a young helmeted soldier aiming a rifle in the jungle, with names and service branches (USA, USMC, USN) from a memorial wall faintly visible behind; "Vietnam Blues" is stencilled in yellow and "Combat Tested Blues...For Peace" along the foot. The back has a pencil drawing of Lintecum in army fatigues with 101st Airborne patch, sergeant's stripes, "Lintecum" and "U.S. Army" name tapes, arms folded, with a signature beneath, and lists 14 tracks: The Vietnam Blues; This Shirt of Mine; Into the Fire from the Fryin' Pan; Time Bomb in My Mind; Oh Shit; Sister Soldier; Veterans Wife; Blue Monsoon; Combat Fatigue; It Don't Mean Nothin'; Five Down; Saturday Morning Cartoons; Reunion at the Wall; Welcome Home. [From the record sleeve and…

About the artist

Three-tour Vietnam combat veteran (101st Airborne, 1966-68) turned blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player; Purple Heart recipient. Based in the Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona area. Died 2025, aged 78, and was buried at the National Cemetery of Arizona. [Source: artist website vietnamblues.com; Fox 10 Phoenix obituary]

Themes

Vet · Military · PTSD

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PTSD Songs · US Military & Veteran Songs · Veterans Memorial Wall Songs