Texas Tech University

Canvas Bunk Bottom

Museum Object Item Number: 1574c0193
Pages
1
Media Type
Museum Object
Physical Location
Stacks Math Building Stacks
Removed from
USNS General John Pope
Language(s)
English
General Note
Statements as they appear on canvas:
Parrish Sept 24, 66, 4th Med Bn
FTA [fuck the army]
4 year lifer
Ronald
Harris ETS 11 May 68
LeFler ETS ounze Juliet soixent neuf
Andrade ETS 17 Mar 68
[foreign language]
Turner, Texas
Date: 17 Sep 67. The people in this compartment that went to Vietnam on the above date will be shot up when they hit the beach because they won't have any ammo when they land. Signed: Lonely & Scared G.I.
If you sleep in this bed and you are on your way to Vietnam you will come back alive. Signed Good Luck
Kalamazoo Michigan, land of sky blue waters
Johnny C. Owens fucks:
1. boys
2. cows
3. dogs
4. aligators
5. snakes
6. frogs
7. maggots
8. cats
9. mice
10. sharks
11. birds
12. fish
13. worms
14. grasshoppers
15. flies
16. horses
17. donkeys
18. goats
19. ducks
20. pigs
21. bears
Old man
Gramps
Pops
Army sucks
18 Sep 67 228 days the army. FTA is for lifers. Fuck the army and all its lifers
ETS 2 May 68
FTA all the fuckin way
Sock it to me baby
Braun Vietnam
Lumbard, Vietnam, 2 May 68 FTA
VD
Lumby

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1574c0193

Citation
Canvas Bunk Bottom, 1574c0193. 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=1574c0193, Accessed 28 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line
1574c0193, USNS General John Pope Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 14 Jul 2005 [Updated: 18 Nov 2013]