We have several other Purple Heart recipients here on FR who also 'won' these medals in Nam.
Yup. Thanks. No parades or waving flags for us, but that is okay. I did what I did became I wanted to. I was not drafted in 1970, I enlisted. So, I asked for it. I joined because I wanted to serve. There were no draft dodgers around my area that I ever knew or heard of. No protests. No whining. We southerners have always answered the call to arms. My family has been in all our wars back to the Civil War up until I retired from the Army in 1992. Ater that, I don’t think we have had anyone that I am aware of in the whole family that has gone into the military. Sorry, but some people think it is better to live under the flag than serve under the flag. So, I was the end of a 145 or more year era. I was the last in uniform in my family.