Who Am I?

Name: Ronald Picardi
Arrived RVN: October 1965
Left RVN: September 1967
Company: A Company

Ronald Picardi has hundreds of pictures from his tour and reduced them to a 300 picture album for our website. He also sketched dozens of pictures of various aspects of his tour and they are included after the 300 initial pictures.

From Ronald: "The Photos are a select collection of 300 photos I took in Vietnam in 66-67 using an instamatic and 35mm camera. The edited photos, used in various presentations about Vietnam are organized as followed. Leaving Ft Lewis, In country Vietnam life, Base Camp, going out on combat missions, Battle of Suoi Tre, coming home. Photos scanned in 1200dpi, saved as jpg-8, and edited to hide nudity, are named according to the subject matter. Family friendly subject matter.

The Sketches are a collection of scans of the pen and ink artwork I created on the various letters I mailed home to my parents from Vietnam. "

Ronald Picardi A Company 1965-67<== Click to see all 300 pictures and the sketches he drew during his Tour

Ronald also kept a prolific journal and wrote dozens of letters.
From Ronald: "The redacted letters were sent home to my parents and my foster family in Washington State. They are a complete written history of my life in the military and Vietnam. Included is a daily redacted diary of my tour in the military."

You can read those letters by selecting any of the topics below.

Letter 1 to the Harts
Letter 2 to the Harts
Letter 3 to the Harts
Letter 4 to the Harts
Letter 1 to home
Letter 2 to home
Letter 3 to home
Letter 4 to home
Letter 5 to home
Letter 6 to home
Letter 7 to home
Letter 8 to home
Letter 9 to home
Letter 10 to home
Letter 11 to home
Letter 12 to home
Letter about Suoi Tre
Vietnam Combat Operations 1966.pdf