Restoring Vietnam Vets Dignity
This has been floating around through literature and e-mail:
Over 30 years ago they put away their uniforms.They buried their anger and
bitterness and moved on with their lives until....
Revisionists are trying to change history,claiming the returning Vietnam vets
didn't suffer all that much when they returned home. All that talk of being labeled
animals has been exaggerated over the years. But the vets know better, they were
there...
On the radio last week, one man related how he had unpacked the uniform that he
wore home from Vietnam over 30 years ago. He showed it to his children and gran children
for the first time and spoke of the day when he came home from war and was spat on,
cursed at and had to run away from protesters who threw garbage and human waste on
him and his fellow vets.
With the words 'baby killers' ringing in his ears, he was warned by laughing policemen not
to do anything or he would be arrested. So he ran and the able bodied helped those in
wheelchairs and on crutches so they could be spared the wrath of the protesters.
This now middle aged vet went on to tell his family that he had his in the bathroom
airport bewildered and stunned and wonderded if he had landed in some foreign land
where Americans were hated. Finally, he cleaned up his uniform and proudly boarded
his plane where he was met with more insults.
When he got home, he packed away his uniform and medals as dirty as it was and knew
that one day he would take it out again and have his say...that day has come.
One POW said that he had never put a face to the name until he heard the words 'Genghis Khan'
pronounced as only as John Kerry does and he suffered his first flashback to the time when he was
being tormented by Kerry's wordds in a North Vietnam prison camp.
On July 29,2004, it happened. The day had come. John Forbes Kerry came to the podium at the
Democratic National Convention and utter"
Over 30 years ago they put away their uniforms.They buried their anger and
bitterness and moved on with their lives until....
Revisionists are trying to change history,claiming the returning Vietnam vets
didn't suffer all that much when they returned home. All that talk of being labeled
animals has been exaggerated over the years. But the vets know better, they were
there...
On the radio last week, one man related how he had unpacked the uniform that he
wore home from Vietnam over 30 years ago. He showed it to his children and gran children
for the first time and spoke of the day when he came home from war and was spat on,
cursed at and had to run away from protesters who threw garbage and human waste on
him and his fellow vets.
With the words 'baby killers' ringing in his ears, he was warned by laughing policemen not
to do anything or he would be arrested. So he ran and the able bodied helped those in
wheelchairs and on crutches so they could be spared the wrath of the protesters.
This now middle aged vet went on to tell his family that he had his in the bathroom
airport bewildered and stunned and wonderded if he had landed in some foreign land
where Americans were hated. Finally, he cleaned up his uniform and proudly boarded
his plane where he was met with more insults.
When he got home, he packed away his uniform and medals as dirty as it was and knew
that one day he would take it out again and have his say...that day has come.
One POW said that he had never put a face to the name until he heard the words 'Genghis Khan'
pronounced as only as John Kerry does and he suffered his first flashback to the time when he was
being tormented by Kerry's wordds in a North Vietnam prison camp.
On July 29,2004, it happened. The day had come. John Forbes Kerry came to the podium at the
Democratic National Convention and utter"
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