General Note: Statements as they appear on canvas:
Obverse
Draft beer, not us
Kill LBJ and stamp out ugly children
Marines love sex
And more sex
Pot + sex
Au + H2O = Goldwater
May 1st 68
15 + 6 days at sea
God saves
Look
Cliftina Beck, 252 1st St. Danville VA, 24541
Please write! She needs more [illegible] now
Peace, brother
Frank & Wendell Scott, NASCAR, 66 Ford, No. 34
Tony + Jo Ann
Feel sick? Suck my dick
Marion, 65 Chevy, 427 hi performance, 4 in floor
Dry pussy
'67 GTO + Olds 442 moves out
Cliftina, Ann R., Jean + Butch, Deborah Q., Jo Ann, Mary M., Kitty
Tina puts out
May 2nd 1967 arrived in Vung Tau, RVN
Batman sucks Robin
Pat
Ran out of water 21 days out
Paul A Samarone, Trenton NJ, 321 Cypress Lane, 19 in 1967
22 fucked up days on this tub
The morning after the night before
Gary Eccles - Conn, 362nd Det. Left 30 April 68
Freddie
US all the way
FTA [fuck the army]
Fuck the Army
Ten more days to Okinawa
Wrenn's Rangers
361 days to go
520th Ft. Lee VA
VCs suck
You suck fat Pat
Glenwood Bowl, 14 April 67
I love Pat
Fuck Ya man
MLH 20 June 66 Vietnam bound, 2 more days
Pat + Freddie 1-9-65
Knoxville + Memphis Tennessee
Patricia Ann Ryan
Harold loves Linda
Harold [illegible] arrived in USA Aug 18, 67
[illegible] Birmingham Alabama
APO SF 96384
Have gun, will travel
ETS May 11, 1968
RVN May 1, 1967
Bldg 4210
Reverse
This Army sucks

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Citation: Canvas Bunk Bottom, 1574c0306. 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=1574c0306, Accessed 19 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 1574c0306, USNS General John Pope Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

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