The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love

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Six months into their separation, Sarah and Dick’s letters reach a new kind of intimacy — fearless, playful, and full of trust. From tie-dye baby shirts and Mexican lunches in San Antonio to quiet nights on alert in Vietnam, they write with a freedom that only comes from knowing their love can hold anything.

It’s the sound of two people who’ve crossed every emotional distance imaginable — and still can’t get close enough.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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Dick is down to thirty wake-ups in Vietnam, filling his nights with letters, music, and a three-hour tape of The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. In San Antonio, Sarah is still surrounded by rain — cleaning, planning, laughing, and missing him so much she can feel it in her body. Between them is a rhythm of waiting, of love stretched thin but unbroken.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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It’s mid-October 1971. Dick is counting thirty-one wake-ups until a short two-week leave home in November — a brief visit before returning to finish his Vietnam tour in the spring. In San Antonio, Sarah spends another gray, rainy Monday balancing dentist visits, friendship, and the slow ache of missing him. Between them travels a small envelope of photographs — proof that love keeps finding its way across the miles.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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On a rainy Sunday in San Antonio, Sarah plans Eggs Benedict and champagne for the morning her husband returns home. Across the world in Vietnam, Dick finalizes his leave — November 18 — and counts down the days. Between cookies, letters, and laughter, they dream of the same kitchen table, the same bed, the same morning light.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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While rain falls in San Antonio, Dick bakes an apple pie halfway across the world in Vietnam. Sarah stays home, feeling their baby move so strongly it kicks a piece of paper off her belly. Two lives divided by an ocean — connected by love, longing, and the quiet beginnings of a family that would one day find its way to Big Sky, Montana.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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Yesterday’s episode shared Sarah’s evening letter — the one where she joked about writing twice in one day.

But there really were two letters that day. This is the one I missed — the first one, written that morning, full of errands, laughter, and small comforts that kept her steady while she waited for my dad to come home.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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It’s another day of distance — one letter from Vietnam, one from San Antonio — both written on October 15, 1971. He’s counting the weeks until his short trip home. She’s writing twice in one day, reaching across the miles. Somehow, they’re always in tune, even in war.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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Two letters written on the same day — one from a war zone, one from a quiet apartment in Texas. He finally has a date to come home. She doesn’t know it yet. Still, somehow, their words move in step — letters in sync, even in war.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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Three letters travel across the ocean in a single day — two from Sarah in San Antonio, one from Dick in Vietnam. Between them are sleepless nights, parties, laughter, a few cookies, and a love that refuses to loosen its grip, even half a world apart.

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

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On October 12, 1971, Dick sat in his hooch in Vietnam eating Sarah’s cookies and drinking a Coke while balancing their checkbook and planning for their future. That same day, Sarah was in San Antonio — surrounded by blue baby gifts from her friends, cheering for her Pirates, and writing about how much she missed him. Two letters, two worlds, one steady rhythm of love across an ocean

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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.

Support the show:

https://buymeacoffee.com/theallgoodslove

Visit the official website: https://www.theallgoodslove.com