{"id":85876,"date":"2019-03-29T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85876"},"modified":"2019-03-28T22:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:40:46","slug":"vietnam-war-veterans-day-is-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85876","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam War Veterans Day is March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tet Offensive 1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a very nice article regarding Vietnam War Veterans’ Day, by our very own OWB, and how it has colored her life.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/newanothervoice.com\/?p=3859<\/p>\n

Like OWB, I am not an in-country vet. I am a Vietnam-era vet. While I never met with any kind of disdain, and was in fact hired for my first post-service job because of my work history in photography after I left the Navy, I know that there were some who did have such an unfortunate experience.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s over now. I run into people my age who wear a baseball cap with a ship and “LPH###” or “DDG-###”embroidered on it, but no embellishment of any kind.<\/p>\n

I have no exciting tales to tell, other than the one about the Rear Admiral who accompanied Lady Bird Johnson to the Navy Photo Center with some other flag officers, and fell asleep in the middle of screening a film of one of LBJ’s speeches. I had been asked to keep an eye on him. There was a snort, and a prolonged rattle, like something was stuck in a pipe. I quickly reached over and tipped the admiral’s head to the left and he woke up.\u00a0 Charming fellow, too. But that was a while back.<\/p>\n

Let’s be glad so many made it back home, lift a glass to fallen comrades, and move on.<\/p>\n

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