Why are Vietnam War Veterans and Korea War Veterans forgotten ?

2015-02-05T16:25:10-05:00

I have a friend who volunteer with me that is a Vietnam War veterans. I know he has animosity toward other war veterans because how they are treated way better than other war veterans. I know that most Vietnam War Veterans and Korea War Veterans were forgotten or treated disrespetfully, but i thought everyone has move past this. I do know that there are certain movies that don't portray the Vietnam War in a positve way or hardly any movies about the Korea War beside M*A*S*H. , but American Sniper or The Hurt Locker movies and character are portray in a much more postive way. I also noticed that PTSD, GI Bill and Vetrean Homelessnes has improved more recently because of the new war veterans , but the older war veterans has been having the issues for years. I am not picking sides, but I have noticed that in our society certain war veterans are treated better than othes. This is just my opinion.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 5 at 2015 5:02 PM

2015-02-05T17:02:30-05:00

You make a very good point, SSG Private RallyPoint Member. Veterans of Vietnam definitely were not treated well when they returned to the US. I know because I was old enough to see it on TV and I remember. Korean vets ... I'm not sure. But I get your point. For some reason Americans now appreciate the sacrifices of the military, and back then, well, not so much.

My guess is that it may have something to do with the media. We (all military members) are generally portrayed in a positive light in the media today. Whether that's a reflection of society or society reflects what they see in the media, I don't know and it probably doesn't matter. For whatever reason, today's vets get more respect.

And there are "welcome home" events for Vietnam veterans to this day. I've seen them discussed right here on RallyPoint. Maybe this series about Vietnam in the RallyPoint Command Post area will help answer your question:

https://www.rallypoint.com/command-post/history-statistics-of-the-vietnam-war-part-i-of-vi

History & Statistics of the Vietnam War: Part I of VI | RallyPoint

The Vietnam War has been the subject of thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, hundreds of books, and scores of movies and television documentaries. The great majority of these efforts have erroneously portrayed many myths about the Vietnam War as being facts. [Nixon] “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong...

Response by SPC C Higgins made Feb 5 at 2015 5:24 PM

2015-02-05T17:24:33-05:00

i'll say this we were the most underdecorated soldiers,Vietnam 66-67,and I saw very few guys given awards for acts that would get a silver star today. But that is history

Response by SFC Collin McMillion made Feb 5 at 2015 6:07 PM

2015-02-05T18:07:51-05:00

I think Vietnam was too politicaly based and and being a baby boomer generation with hippies and free love, it just gave too many options to not fighting a war, weak president, very poor leadership all around and then of course they say we lost that confict, it was a war, we did not lose.....we were forced by higher powers to quit. We could have finished that mess in the first month or so if we had the support necessary to do so. I for one am proud of my service and ashamed of those who knew nothing but run and and hide or protest against something they knew nothing about.

Response by SGT Thomas Lucken made Feb 25 at 2016 1:29 PM

2016-02-25T13:29:07-05:00

DMZ Veterans are totally forgotten out of all of them......

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9iCGLJOlNVRnE2GGgVDTeXAQ3GZKD9E1

The 2nd Forgotten Korean War "Incidents" 1954 to 1991

The videos cover a span of 37 plus years of incidents that happened on the Korean DMZ! Just a small percentage, many more were never reported and/or disappea...