USAF, 1970 - 1974.
I find myself asking just what the hell was the point of serving this country? Why the hell did we bother?
you were the best... the government wasn’t the best or the brightest and they let you down.
There is help available. Don’t sit with it alone
I don’t get it.
What are you trying to say?
I didn’t serve. Didn’t have to. Others did for me. Thank you, all.
We were betrayed and lied to and did not know it. Don’t get me wrong I have two Purple Hearts and thought I was patriotic.
I had many friends and relatives who served, but I graduated just as the war ended.
I took a month and traveled Vietnam from top to bottom. Even floated down the Mekong River from Thailand, through Laos and down to the delta.
Crawled through some of the tunnels and saw the various man traps with spikes. Can only imagine what it was like.
My hat is off to those who served.
It was another Democrat President, Johnson, that really escalated the war for his own politics. Some things never change.
Thank you for your service.
I often think about how your generation that served in Vietnam was screwed. I hope you can take comfort in the thought that many of us know you were wronged and express it to others frequently.
For those that served in Vietnam, the cultural treatment now is essentially neglect vs. the hero culture granted to the WWII generation. It’s not right.
The old Soviet Union was scary.
They had a political system that said they had to rule the world.
We really weakened them in Vietnam.
The fight in Vietnam helped to end the Soviet Union and the case for world communism.
Thankyou to those Americans who fought in Vietnam and helped to end the nightmare of a world ruled by a communist dictatorship.
At a similar age, I ask when did Viet Nam become Vietnam? At a same time, is/was the battle ribbon changed from ‘RVN’ to ‘RV’?
Regardless of these minuscule nits, we were dropped by our commanders and I have every reason to believe the same will happen to those who strained and bled in the ‘Sandpile’, ‘Rockpile’ and the WoT. God bless them all and keep their memories ever green/khaki/camo and whatever blue was being worn that year that the DD214 was closed out!
My Dad was a World War II vet and a VA Hospital Volunteer - he came around to believe that the Viet Nam Vets who were spending the rest of their lives in a crappy VA Hospital were betrayed by our Government.
I’m a vet...
Got into a little discussion with my sister about VA benefits...
She said that the pubs would set things right when they get back in power...
I pointed out to her that every significant piece of legislation for veterans was written and passed by democommies.
Just a little piece of information to chew on
When you feel melancholy, remind yourself that so many did not survive to contemplate such things.
Thank you for your service.
58K+ souls gone and many more never met their potential. Forced to do the work of politicians who made sure their sons, brothers and friends never went.
All the money going to the VA, and it’s a lot, doesn’t all go to the Veterans or their care.
The VA has become the big national money launderer for the Democrats.
Everybody over the age of 25 knows that communism doesn’t work.
Communism is always, ALWAYS, a front for a dictatorship.
The service members have always had my respect.
But, they haven’t been used well for a long time. That’s not their fault. That is “our” fault.
USAR 1976-2007
My sister said the other day that she didn’t understand why I was so against socialism because I use the socialized medicine VA Hospital System for TBI care and everyone else has to pay my bills. She seemed surprised when I shut her down -— but so many people today feel that same way because so many people today neither volunteered nor had to serve even a single day to reap all their opportunities and benefits this country offers.
My Dad fought in both WWII and Korea -— retired after 20+ years. We were raised as Army brats.