Welcome Home Vietnam Vet

[shamrock]

Senate Passes Welcome Home Day

Week of March 29, 2010

A resolution introduced by U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, encouraging communities across the nation to establish "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day" was passed unanimously by the Senate. The resolution designates March 30, 2010, as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day," to honor the return home of our armed servicemembers after serving in Vietnam. For more information on the War in Vietnam, including educational materials, visit the U.S. Army in Vietnam, the Virtual Vietnam Archive, the Public Broadcasting Service's Battlefield Vietnam webpage, the Vietnam War Bibliography, and the Gravel Edition of The Pentagon Papers.

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[trailblazer]

I would make a comment but I can't add anything to whats already been said. Good post people.

[Commander Bob]

I view this as another pathetic attempt to right a wrong and skewer history.... Having personally experienced the cold shoulder of an ungrateful nation, during that era, I find the words and resolutions alone, hollow and unacceptable.

Most people born during the 1960's and later, are clueless to what happened back then. They were never taught about the Vietnam war, and are more concerned about their own dilemmas of today.

Edited March 30, 2010 by Commander Bob

[gp747]

I just can't seem to bury the hatchet.

[Commander Bob]

I just can't seem to bury the hatchet.

Some Vietnam vets just can't seem to bury the hatchet, because they cannot reach it from the middle of their backs.

[hedgey]

I know I should be glad that at least something is being done, and that the new calendars will have a new "holiday" on them. (they will, right? Or will this be like National Butterfly Week?) But I just feel bitter.

I was just in 4th grade when my big brother went off to war. My at-the-time best friend's brother went to college before he took a extended trip north. See, he got kicked out of college for throwing dog feces and sacks of flour on national guard soldiers.

Now hear from my mom that her brother (who came home and finished college when amnesty was bestowed) is retired from a nice job with IBM. My brother died 12 years ago from cancer due to AO, after a long hard battle with what I now know was PTSD. I always felt like he never really came home.

I've heard that there are actually support groups for the CROTC members (Cowards Ran Off To Canada) because they're having trouble dealing with the terrible burden of guilt. I guess there must be a chapter in DC because this whole thing stinks of guilt and the burning desire to relieve it.

[pigdriver]

Leave it to the politicians!! Always looking for the vote to keep the "cushy" position that pays so very well. They can all stick it where the sun doesn't shine. Every day I think about my brothers that came home in a box, came home maimed and crippled both physically and mentally, I also think about my brothers that never came home, remains never found!! If the politicians want to do something for us then start by giving us back all of our constitutional rights that have been stolen from us by stealth, give us back our sanity and physical well being and most of all treat us as fellow human beings.