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    Thank you to all the Vietnam Veterans for your service.

    Welcome home.

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    Thank you.

    What would have really been great is being able to understand what our service did to help our fellow Americans.
    I've spent a lifetime not being able to come up with anything.
    Do you believe that Vietnam was a threat to the United States? Stop skipping your meds.

    I understand what my dad's service in the 1940s was for. Mine, however, is a different story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Thank you to all the Vietnam Veterans for your service.

    Welcome home.
    Your husband's service is appreciated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Thank you.

    What would have really been great is being able to understand what our service did to help our fellow Americans.
    I've spent a lifetime not being able to come up with anything.
    Do you believe that Vietnam was a threat to the United States? Stop skipping your meds.

    I understand what my dad's service in the 1940s was for. Mine, however, is a different story.
    Most of my living Viet vet friends say the same thing.

    As did the deceased ones before them.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Thank you to all the Vietnam Veterans for your service.

    Welcome home.
    I didn't know there was a day?
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    I didn't know there was a day?
    This was signed into law by President Trump...in 2017..The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    This was signed into law by President Trump...in 2017..The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act...
    How ironic
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Thank you to all the soldiers who fought in it..and to everyone involved... their families, support groups, etc...Reach out to thank one in person if you can...I'm sure they will absolutely appreciate it....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Thank you to all the Vietnam Veterans for your service.

    Welcome home.
    And a special thank you to the families of those who gave their lives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Your husband's service is appreciated.
    Thank you, I will tell him.

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    I just bought my dad a new “Retired US Army” cap from a group of veterans raising funds to help other veterans. I gave him that $20 cap Sunday and you’d have thought I’d have given him a $5000 check. I’ve never known anyone who loved the Army more than he did.

    Thank you to all Vets, and on this day, especially to our Vietnam Vets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Thank you.

    What would have really been great is being able to understand what our service did to help our fellow Americans.
    I've spent a lifetime not being able to come up with anything.
    Do you believe that Vietnam was a threat to the United States? Stop skipping your meds.

    I understand what my dad's service in the 1940s was for. Mine, however, is a different story.
    The indifference and disrespect to VN vets was particularly difficult to understand, as the participants and the rest of us grew up practically worshiping those who served in WWII.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    This was signed into law by President Trump...in 2017..The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act...
    Guess it was his sop to them for dodging the draft himself, and calling those who didn't "suckers" and "losers."
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    There were no parades for us, in fact you could be in a war zone one day and home shortly after, alone
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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Thank you.

    What would have really been great is being able to understand what our service did to help our fellow Americans.
    I've spent a lifetime not being able to come up with anything.
    Do you believe that Vietnam was a threat to the United States? Stop skipping your meds.

    I understand what my dad's service in the 1940s was for. Mine, however, is a different story.
    Private Ownership.
    "Beginning in the 1930s, France began to exploit the region for its natural resources and to economically diversify the colony. Cochinchina, Annam and Tonkin (encompassing modern-day Vietnam) became a source of tea, rice, coffee, pepper, coal, zinc and tin, while Cambodia became a centre for rice and pepper crops."
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