Rocker Rick Springfield recalled this week how, as a teenager, he performed for U.S. forces in Vietnam and killed a Viet Cong attacker — haunting him to this day that he “was responsible for the end of a life.”
\n\nThe Australian singer-songwriter became an ‘80s superstar with his megahit “Jessie’s Girl,” but in 1968 he was an unknown 17-year-old musician who had traveled to Southeast Asia to entertain American troops at the height of the Vietnam War.
\n\nSpringfield, 77, recounted that harrowing experience on an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” posted on Tuesday. He said he was staying at a U.S. Navy encampment in the Marble Mountains near Da Nang when they suddenly came under attack.
\n\n“We met these guys, and we really got along well, and we stayed overnight with them, and we all got in the bunkers, in the perimeter bunkers, and I stayed in the radio shack,” he recalled. “And we got attacked, and I’m throwing mortars down the freaking tube of the radio shack.”
\n\nIn the heat of the moment, Springfield said he was haphazardly loading a launcher and “could have easily lost a hand.”
\n\n“It was like the movies,” he told Rogan. “They said…
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