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This Sunday, March 29th is Vietnam War Veterans Day! Here is an op-ed about the significance of this day and why, even in the midst of public health concerns, we should all acknowledge, observe and honor those who served in the Vietnam War. Not only this Sunday, but everyday.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Sunday is Vietnam War Veterans Day
Posted from plymouth.wickedlocal.com
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I guess that I could rummage through my old records, they are around here somewhere and find the exact day I left Vietnam,because that day is MY Vietnam War Veterans Day and while its a nice gesture to be given a day of remembrance and is appreciated,there is still after all these years for me anyway that feeling of loss and abandonment ,can’t seem to shake it,Welcome Home Brothers
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SGT Robert Pryor
SGT Philip Roncari, I remember watching the fall of Saigon unfold on the evening news and feeling and overwhelming sense of abandonment.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT Robert Pryor-I too also watched these events unfold and I thought of the absolute waste of this Country’s finest,their only tribute is the Wall and our remembrance of them,Welcome Home Brothers
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1LT Voyle Smith
I felt the same way, brother Robert. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Those poor people were being abandoned to their fate by our own Uncle Sam. Would never have thought that possible. We knew what was in store for them. The commies had shown everybody at Hue’ what would be done to them: children shot in the face, women raped and disemboweled, boys and men shot in the head or bayonetted in the gut or suffocated by filthy rags stuffed down their throats, their bodies pushed into a pit and covered over by a bulldozer. No grave markers. No one now even remembers their names. It’s painful to contemplate.
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