Please take a few minutes to reflect on the short lives of those who gave their all for our Country. I have friends with their names Vietnam Memorial Wall. Other friends , died by their own hand years after they came home from Vietnam.
Thanks for putting that up ARTZ. I have mixed emotions about how to honor this holiday. Sad, solemn, or throw a BBQ party. I have chosen to send a card and gift of gratitude to a neighbor who served and lost a lot in the process.
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I honor those who served, whether they were duped or not.
It is a day to honer the fallen Those that never made it home. I am a Vietnam era Vet and have a couple of friends on the wall. I also have a couple of friends that died by their own hand many years after coming home. Suicide among Veterans is epidemic. I want to also honor all that fell . They did not lead us into a war.
I am very fortunate to live in Oceanside. Home of Camp Pendleton. Build many boards for Marines. Every one I have personally met, I’ve shaked their hand and say thanks.
And not just on Memorial Day.
Many thanks to all who have served and who serve now.
I was drafted in 1968. Some odd stroke of luck put me state-side for the whole year-and-a-half I was in. It still pains me to think of all the friends I had who didn’t come back, and those who came back but never recovered from the experience. Whenever I meet a Viet Nam vet, the first thing I do is to welcome them home. They didn’t get that courtesy from a lot of people when they first returned
History always seems to repeat itself. The old men tell lies, and the young ones die to defend those lies.
(See: Bush/Cheney, et al)