The "Jessie's Girl" hitmaker, now 77, told Joe Rogan he threw mortar bombs during a 1968 attack in South Vietnam, and learned the next day that one of his rounds killed a man, a memory he says still haunts him. Rick Springfield was 19 years old and chasing a paycheck. In 1968, the Australian-born musician […] The post Rick Springfield reveals he killed a man with a mortar during Vietnam War appeared first on American Almanac .
The "Jessie's Girl" hitmaker, now 77, told Joe Rogan he threw mortar bombs during a 1968 attack in South Vietnam, and learned the next day that one of his rounds killed a man, a memory he says still haunts him. Rick Springfield was 19 years old and chasing a paycheck. In 1968, the Australian-born musician traveled to South Vietnam with his band, MPD Limited, to entertain troops. The group stayed roughly four months. What Springfield brought home was not money, he says they spent what little they earned at the military post exchange, but a burden he carried for more than half a century before speaking about it publicly on The Joe Rogan Experience. Springfield told Rogan that during his stay, he and his bandmates befriended a group of…Open
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Rick Springfield is a Grammy Award-winning musician, actor, and author. In addition to his work as a solo artist, Springfield fronts the rock supergroup The Locustz. Their most recent album, “Buzzkill,” is available now. www.youtube.com/@RickSpringfieldOfficial locustzbuzzkill.bandcamp.com/album/buzzkill linktr.ee/rickspringfield www.rickspringfield.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan . Don’t miss out on all the action this week at DraftKings! Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using https://dkng.co/rogan or through my promo code ROGAN. This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…Open