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Aug 6, 2013 07:38:43   #
tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma
 
From one of us who know better, I am very proud for what we did....Semper Fe
shadows creation wrote:
It seems that most people hated veitnam vets back then and still do so now. It is sad ti think that we served our time there and lost our comrads there so fredom could be kept. People coming back from todays wars are treated like heros. We were spit on and called names and employeers would not hire us. We sevived inspite of that. So to say get over it is like saying that all humans should get over it when their family die. I have a flag in a case that I saw in a thrift shop that was given to them cause the family didn't want it. I don't know who's it is but I display it with a note say it belonged to a brave service member who payed the ultimite price for our freedom. Yes I was in a marine in veitnam and my daughters are very proud of that. To bad thay are the only ones who are.
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Aug 6, 2013 07:49:06   #
shadows creation Loc: san antonio
 
Thank you very much. 8-)

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Aug 6, 2013 07:50:48   #
FrumCA
 
And don't forget the fellow named Bill Clinton who also avoided the draft.

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Aug 6, 2013 08:28:40   #
sundancer2004 Loc: oak island, nc
 
Tom G wrote:
You NEVER get over the senseless deaths of those who served our country willingly and unquestionably.

To emphasize this point, I suggest you visit the several memorials ( in Washington D.C.) to those who served and died.

And when you're done there, take a slow walk through a V-A Hospital; there's one near you wherever you are.

And by the way, Where and when did you serve sundancer2004?


1969-1970 RVN, and I have visited the wall as well as she'd a tear or to remembering my friends that did not come home. They were men among men So perhaps you sanctimonious SOB, you should think twice before assuming.

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Aug 6, 2013 08:31:45   #
Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC
 
RixPix wrote:
I lost a cousin and two friends in that war...


I served three tours in Nam. The post has nothing to do with Nam, their were thousands of draft dodgers.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:05:38   #
GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee
 
shadows creation wrote:
It seems that most people hated veitnam vets back then and still do so now. It is sad ti think that we served our time there and lost our comrads there so fredom could be kept. People coming back from todays wars are treated like heros. We were spit on and called names and employeers would not hire us. We sevived inspite of that. So to say get over it is like saying that all humans should get over it when their family die. I have a flag in a case that I saw in a thrift shop that was given to them cause the family didn't want it. I don't know who's it is but I display it with a note say it belonged to a brave service member who payed the ultimite price for our freedom. Yes I was in a marine in veitnam and my daughters are very proud of that. To bad thay are the only ones who are.
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Welcome Home Brother.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:08:39   #
GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee
 
Bultaco wrote:
I served three tours in Nam. The post has nothing to do with Nam, their were thousands of draft dodgers.


Welcome Home Brother

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Aug 6, 2013 09:09:25   #
GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee
 
tlbuljac wrote:
From one of us who know better, I am very proud for what we did....Semper Fe


Welcome Home Brother

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Aug 6, 2013 09:11:11   #
GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee
 
sundancer2004 wrote:
1969-1970 RVN, and I have visited the wall as well as she'd a tear or to remembering my friends that did not come home. They were men among men So perhaps you sanctimonious SOB, you should think twice before assuming.


Welcome Home Brother. Many did not understand us but we do and we need to be patient with the others and keep the high ground as we always have.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:14:28   #
GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee
 
RixPix wrote:
1960's I was in grade school. I don't remember much but the funeral. I think I was in fourth grade. I remember those
Thursday or Friday reports they would give on the radio with the body counts. Do you remember those?


thanks for remembering many your age do not and know nothing about that time and the thirty somethings are in the same boat. Please remember the Korean War vets as well as they are the forgotten ones.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:15:45   #
02Nomad Loc: Catonsville, MD
 
The way that our service men and women were treated upon their return from 'Nam was probably the most shameful period in our history. I served in the Air Force on the other side of the world in '68 and was proud as hell of those that were in 'Nam, I still am.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:23:29   #
jvo Loc: left coast of the east coast
 
RixPix wrote:
You're correct a nervous disorder is NOT a mental disorder...it makes HIM A COWARD...A WEAK MINDED SNIVELING LITTLE COWARD that got a gun fetish. That's my point.



seems to be an apt description :-P

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Aug 6, 2013 09:29:22   #
Bill Houghton Loc: New York area
 
shadows creation wrote:
It seems that most people hated veitnam vets back then and still do so now. It is sad ti think that we served our time there and lost our comrads there so fredom could be kept. People coming back from todays wars are treated like heros. We were spit on and called names and employeers would not hire us. We sevived inspite of that. So to say get over it is like saying that all humans should get over it when their family die. I have a flag in a case that I saw in a thrift shop that was given to them cause the family didn't want it. I don't know who's it is but I display it with a note say it belonged to a brave service member who payed the ultimite price for our freedom. Yes I was in a marine in veitnam and my daughters are very proud of that. To bad thay are the only ones who are.
It seems that most people hated veitnam vets back ... (show quote)


You know who was the Grass Roots Leader of that movement. The one the Vets aren't Fonda.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:31:49   #
Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana
 
RixPix wrote:
You're correct a nervous disorder is NOT a mental disorder...it makes HIM A COWARD...A WEAK MINDED SNIVELING LITTLE COWARD that got a gun fetish. That's my point.


RixPix wrote:
I never enlisted and was not required to register with the selective service as was 18 in 1976. I scored very high on the test given to high school students and was dogged by recruiters until I was about 28.


So, that would make you a... (?) because you never served, unlike Wayne LaPierre who didn't serve because of a nervous Disorder. You do not need a war going on to serve your country. You could have joined anytime after your 18th birthday. Yes I did serve in the Navy and volunteered for a tour in Da Nang.

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Aug 6, 2013 09:40:23   #
jojo Smith Loc: Northern Michigan
 
shadows creation wrote:
It seems that most people hated veitnam vets back then and still do so now. It is sad ti think that we served our time there and lost our comrads there so fredom could be kept. People coming back from todays wars are treated like heros. We were spit on and called names and employeers would not hire us. We sevived inspite of that. So to say get over it is like saying that all humans should get over it when their family die. I have a flag in a case that I saw in a thrift shop that was given to them cause the family didn't want it. I don't know who's it is but I display it with a note say it belonged to a brave service member who payed the ultimite price for our freedom. Yes I was in a marine in veitnam and my daughters are very proud of that. To bad thay are the only ones who are.
It seems that most people hated veitnam vets back ... (show quote)


Thank You , I Have Had This Site For A While And Found A Soldiers Name that I wore a bracelet for.
I will be forever grateful for the men /women in the Vietnam War. Count me in next to your daughters ,
http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm

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