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Rick Springfield said he took a man’s life when he was unexpectedly caught in the Vietnam War.
The famous rocker spoke out about the incident on the September 8 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” and revealed that he made a split-second decision that ended another man’s life.
Springfield said his band traveled to Vietnam in 1968 to entertain American troops.
“It was pretty insane. We were there for about four months,” he said.
“I thought, ‘Oh, great. We’ll make money, you know.’ And, of course, we didn’t make any money. We spent it all at the PX, and we weren’t making much money anyway,” he said.
Springfield said that after entertaining the troops, he spent some time with men he met along the way, and things took a very unexpected turn.
He admitted that at first, he had no idea what he had done.
“The hardest thing for me was that I had thrown a mortar down, and it had hit somebody, and they came in the next day and said, ‘Hey, you got one. You got one,” Springfield told Rogan.
“And that still has a hard place to land in me, you know? That’s really kind of the one thing I brought back with me that I couldn’t really find a place for that to land.”
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David Cho
He has more confirmed kills than me? I went to Iraq twice!
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Kevin Mueller
“Couldn’t find a place for that to land”… was that… was that intentional?
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Robert Skinner
He told this story years ago in an interview with William Shatner. I thought it was common knowledge at this point.
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