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Today is Vietnam Veterans Day, a better group of people who deserve a day doesn’t exist. If thousands hadn’t stayed in the service and trained my generation of soldiers, we would have been lost. And they had no reason to stay in the service. the country had pretty much turned their back on the veterans of that war in the years following the end of combat in Vietnam. They hid their internal scars, some ashamed to admit in public that they’d been to that war. Even the Veterans Service organizations turned their back on them.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard that the dedication of the Vietnam memorial was the point at which Vietnam Veterans felt like they’d finally been welcomed home, but I disagree. <\/p>\n

I was at the first Gathering of Eagles back in March 2007<\/a>, and I think that was when they’d felt welcomed again for the first time as they got to stand firm against the hippie vermin across the street from the Lincoln Memorial. they declared that what had happened to them wouldn’t happen to this generation. I’d never seen such camaraderie among veterans, so many smiles, so much backslapping and hugging.<\/p>\n

One more time they heard their nation call and they answered once again. Because of their experience after their war, other generations wont have to experience what they did, if we never forget.<\/p>\n

Welcome home, brothers. <\/p>\n

I’m proud that one of my several hometowns joined in the spirit of today;<\/p>\n