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Just seeing you in your uniform brings so much emotion into it again for me. This is what it’s all about. We can’t let this happen, we just can’t.
I called all the men I worked on “My boys”. As you know, there is a special bond with the men and women you serve with.
This summer my husband and I etched some of our friends names off the wall in DC. Before we went to the wall, we went to the Vietnam Woman's Memorial to see the monument there.
I got to walk around the Womens monument for the first time with a female veteran I served with. My husband and grandson were there too.
It was emotional to say the least.
While there, a young tour guide had a group of about 80 there telling them what the monument stood for. When it was erected, etc. He was just saying “So, lets move on...” when I happened by.
He’d left out an important part so I asked him “How many nurses died in Nam?”
He said “Eight nurses died in country”.
I thanked him and proceeded to continue walking around the monument. Then a voice rang out “Did you serve during Vietnam?”
I said “Yes, I did, and so did my friend over there”.
We were swarmed by all 80 people in the tour. I don’t know where the tour guide went, and never saw him again.
A couple men suggested the women have their pictures taken with us. They were middle aged and teenage women. They were actually “moved” to be with us. It was so moving to be appreciated that way.
I’m on a cane because of my disability and I get sick. So I had to actually sit down. The young women wanted to touch me, and they were saying how cool it was to be with us. They cried...
The same thing was happening to my friend. It was emotional and filled us with such pride. Especially to see young women being so proud of other women who served.
After pictures were over, they held us, and thanked us for our service. I pointed out my husbands service too.
The men came over and hugged us and thanked us too.
Then we went over to the wall, and found our friends to etch their names. We do that every time there is a traveling wall, and this was the first time we’d done it on the real wall.
We love our friends who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice. We love our friends who served and came home mixed up. We love our friends in arms who served beside us, and are still in contact with so many of them.
Oddly enough, when you meet a Marine, Sailor, Troop from any branch, there just seems to be an instant bond. We know what we’ve been through. We are brothers and sisters.
That’s why we have to help them fight a battle like this one.
We can’t let them be treated like criminals, felons, when all they’ve done is volunteered to fight all enemies foreign and domestic.
The Vietnam Vets are the perfect statistic to show no rampant shooting spree’s have happened because of PTSD. They’ve needed help, and had to fight for it. But they didn’t need insult to injury which is what this bill will do!
How many won’t seek help with a bill like this. And then, how many will slip the surly bonds of sanity because they couldn’t get help, or go back to a job in law enforcement?
How many active duty won’t be able to continue in the military because they can’t carry a gun anymore, because they started to suffer PTSD, but could have been rehabilitated?
This is so insane.
God protect our awesome troops!
We’re so proud of them. We stop them and tell them they are the best of the best. And ask them to thank their families too! And that includes their Mom’s and Dad’s! Grandma and Grandpa’s. Everyone who’s loving them and worrying about them! Because they’re serving too!
So this will be a BIG SLAP in their faces too.
Lets pray to the Father that we can get a call in going to get the message out that we won’t stand for this one, not at all!
Thanks, and again, God protect them, and God Bless! Because getting this overturned will be impossible!
Remember, the LINK to all the senators Wash DC phone numbers is in the first article. PLEASE CALL... and PLEASE PASS THIS AROUND TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!!