Just want to thank all you veterans out there..
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17 years ago
Just want to thank all you veterans out there..
I would like to echo what Jeff said plus too all Nam Vets Welcome Home
I was not prepared for my welcome home after my Vietnam tour. When I joined the Navy, the uniform got the girls, but in 1967-69 you dared not wear it more then you had to. We learned from that "baby killer" crap to hate the war, but not the warrior this time around.
Jerry Kaiser wrote:
Indeed!. I came back from a one-year in-country tour to be stationed in San Francisco. Talk about "out of the frying pan into the fire". I got booed in SF and picketed many times in Oakland (I had to drive through the Oakland Army Base where much of the VN shipments originated). We didn't wear uniforms off-vase any more than we had to. Paul Johnson
Sad comment on how some American view the very people that keep us free, isn't it? However one expect that kind of stuff in San Francisco today as well.
mike hunt
That crap was just beginning when I returned in May of 1965. Fortunately, I spent my remaining nine months in the service assigned to the 116th INTC Group in DC and the uniform of the day was plain clothes...
JT
We may pay dearly in the future for failing to maintain a good size military force. There may no longer be an Iron Curtain, but there's plenty of bad guys that want our hide...
JT
John Poulos wrote:
I was lucky, I got out in Feb 63. We did run an escort mission for a hellicopter carrier up close to Vietnam, but since the war was not officially on, it was apparently kept secret. When I checked our ships records years later there was no record that it was near Vietnam.
Yeah, we will. Good thing Rummy's gone:
Rumsfeld develops his own views on transformation, which involve cutting funding for heavy equipment and developing a high-tech military that relies on fewer troops. "Donald Rumsfeld wanted to build a smaller, nimbler and more networked military that could respond swiftly to threats anywhere in the world," recalls John Arquilla, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School."
Grumpy AuC> We may pay dearly in the future for failing to maintain a good size
Sounds like my Navy Expeditionary Medal, "For unspecified action" a.k.a. Cuba missile crisis.
Alex Magdaleno wrote:
At least you got one. My ship/squadron was never recognized or acknowledged for an assignment during/after Bay of Pigs. Paul Johnson
Thanks for all the kind thoughts to the Veterans, young and old. I was in the Army, 67-70. Vietnam from May of 68' through May of 69' and served with the 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cav. My Squadron commander was George S Patton, Jr. and it seems that he had somewhat of a reputation to live up to so we were always in the thick of it, or so it seemed at the time.
I served, did my duty, made and lost friends, was awarded the Bronze Star for doing something that I would never want to do now, but didn't even think to question when I was there. Luckily, no Purple Heart medal!
I came home, and living in the San Francisco Bay Area, got my fair share of bad vibes, jeers and hate from the locals, including some of my "friends" from school that had stayed home and managed to avoid the draft. Funny how things change.
I am so glad that our country, for the most part, has decided it is OK to respect the men and women that step up and serve. It is OK to hate the war, hate the politicians, and hate the problems that we get into. That is what our country is about, freedom to think and to speak and to act. I'm just glad that we can be civil and respectful to our armed forces. They are some of the best and brightest and we should be proud of them.
Enough rambling....Thanks to my fellow Vets for all you do and have done. Welcome Home to my Vietnam Vet brothers and sisters. God Bless America.
Allen
Jerry Kaiser wrote:
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In addition they do not wear a uniform or meet you face to face. One of are problem today is we are trying to fight 'friendly wars' by avoiding civilian casualties.
In WWII when we were attacked from a village we destroyed the village, we did go door to door to find who was shooting at us. If Patton were leading the war in Iraq there would not longer be a Sadar City, Falluga or half of Baghdad
mike hunt
And exactly how would that be saving Iraq? Reminds me of the infamous quote " we had to destroy the village in order to save it">
At least JFK learned from that fiasco.
I again point to the "reformed recalcitrant" Truman for beginning the "no win" policies still practiced to this day...
JT
A simple: "God bless all of the veterans!" FlatheadGeo
You many have different opinion but to me it would kill off those foreign terrorist that are trying so hard to prevent the democratically elected government of Iraq from taking control of the country. Why else would Arabs from Iran and Syria be sending in their children to kill both Sunni and Shiites in Iraq?
mike hunt
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