Canvas Bunk Bottom
Museum Object Item Number: 1574c0158
- Pages
- 1
- Media Type
- Museum Object
- Physical Location
- Stacks Math Building Stacks
- Removed from
- USNS General John Pope
- Language(s)
- English
- Collection
- USNS General John Pope Collection
- Association
- Vietnam Graffiti Project
- General Note
- Statements as they appear on canvas:
May the lifers re-up and go away amen
Sp/4 Wells Fargo ETS 15 Dec 67, Jan 12, 1967. Martinsville Indiana
Precious Hayes Memphis Tenn. ETS Nov 22, 67 Vietnam bound
Date left July 23, Ft. Lewis WA. HH Co. 2/8
Re-up for the Bennies
Edwin K. Miller, Fort Ashby West Virginia
The Army sucks
Lifer
Sp/4 Ford, 176 days and becoming slowly short timer
This ship sucks
Wheeling West Virginia
Motown July 9-21
West Virginia [18]
Nineteen days on this ship and I'm going nuts
We land in Vietnam in four days. I wonder what it will be like
This boat trip sucks
Today was a fucked up day, we didn't do shit
Sp/4 Jerry M. Wells [Fargo], today 23 Jan 1967, ETS 15 Dec 1967
Martinsville Indiana. Stopped in Okinawa the 24 Jan. We got passes, good booze and [illegible] women. We leave today 25 Jan. Land in Vietnam 28 Jan.
Well today is the 28, we land tomorrow the 29th Jan. A soldier jump overboard, we never found him
[The soldier overboard statement refers to an incident that occurred on the Pope in January 1967 when a soldier deliberately jumped overboard and was drowned. For more information: http://taskforceomegainc.org/W358.htm.]
See Also
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1574c0158
- Citation
- Canvas Bunk Bottom, 1574c0158. No Date, USNS General John Pope Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1574c0158, Accessed 28 Jan 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 1574c0158, USNS General John Pope Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 14 Jul 2005 [Updated: 18 Nov 2013]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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