Where and what were you doing on March 29, 1973 when the war ended in Vietnam?

In my cruiser patrolling I-95 thanking God that I made it home back to the World in one piece and that damn War was finally over!

I wasn't born yet.
:'(
Lol

I was 13 years old in the Philippines...I think what was memorable for me was, not so much the end of the war that March but the return of the POWs at Clark Air Base in February. Martial Law had just been declared 5 months earlier. And my dad had just petitioned for me and my sister to join him in the US. It was moving to see on TV these soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors as they got off the plane. I saw their pride in America as they saluted and their joy as they embraced those of their family who were there.

So when I went to the court to take my oath as a citizen, we were told that we can omit the part of the oath that says we would bear arms to defend America. I thought, "How strange." I did not omit that part. I remembered those men on the tarmac at Clark Air Base 8 years earlier.

And 3 years later, as I took my oath as a soldier, I remembered those men and felt the awesome responsibility I was taking on. By God's grace, I served with honor.