Forty years later, Vietnam remembered by the soldiers

Coach is Right ^ | 12/28/12 | Suzanne Eovaldi

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Forty years later, veterans still suffer rebound effects from inhabiting thick jungles during one of America’s most brutal wars. “Inside the Vietnam War,” airs tonite, December 28 at 8 p.m., in a special encore presentation on the National Geographic Channel. An outstanding memorial tribute by USA TODAY it features individual interviews of veterans from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Marine Security Guard, Bill Newell stood post at the US Embassy in Saigon on April 29, 1975, when he got the news that two of his fellow Marines became the last Americans to die in that terrible war. Charlie McMahon and Darwin Judge were killed by rocket fire as they defended the Saigon airport. Newell evacuated the next day in the next to last US helicopter lifting off of...

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Kenndy=Kennedy

Sheesh.

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My uncle went to Canada

Back in 2003 I was waiting in baggage pickup at Detroit Metro airport, having just returned from a ski trip to British Columbia. There was a girl waiting with me who was on her way back to college somewhere in Ohio.

We got to talking and she proceeded to tell me that her parents were originally from the U.S. but fled to British Columbia when her dad got his draft notice. She was talking as if it was somehow a badge of honor, not knowing that I was a Vietnam vet who had enlisted.

I was stunned and didn’t say a word. The more she talked the angrier I got and while driving home from the airport I started yelling all the things I should have said to her in person……..People like that make me sick