Vietnam Veterans Day
Categories: Military, News
March 29th is Vietnam Veterans Day and deservedly so. Never before in the history of our nation have men and women in uniform been treated with such disdain upon their return. Media outlets at the time portrayed them as murderers and monsters who committed unspeakable acts. We know this to be untrue. While the nature of war is that unspeakable acts will happen, these men were not more monsters or evil doers than the men who went before them in Korea, World War Two, World War One or any other conflict prior.
These men fought a new kind of war. They were introduced to asymmetric warfare in brutal fashion and responded as best they could. Communist sympathizers infiltrated the south and waged a different kind of war than we’d seen before. The jungles of Vietnam didn’t make it easier, but we were there to resist an ideology of control. An ideology that is responsible for between 85 to 100 million killed for not being in line with the state. That’s what we were fighting against.
And yet Hanoi Jane felt it her duty to betray her country and pose for propaganda photos with the North Vietnamese Army. Maybe she regrets it, maybe she doesn’t but she still did it and the photo at the time served as a potent piece of propaganda for a murderous regime.
This March 29th take a little time to remember these men who on behalf of what seemed an ungrateful nation at the time, still did their duty and fought against an ideology that even to this day still grips the world in its iron and icy grip.
The war that took over 58,000 lives and wounded over 150,000…on behalf of an ungrateful people they went and did their job, they did their duty and they did it while seemingly everyone was against them. Remember these men and women, remember their sacrifice. Honor them.
JUNE 69 TILL JUNE 70: 365 DAYS TO BE EXACT I SPENT IN THE LOVELY COUNTRY OF SOUTH VIETNAM. FIVE YEARS LATER BECAUSE OF IGNORANT BABY BOOMERS, MOSTLY LEFTIST, SOUTH VIETNAM DISAPPEARED AS THE NORTH OVER RAN THE SOUTH WITH SOCIALIST(COMMUNIST) HATE AND FEAR!! THE SADDEST DAY OF MY LIFE WAS WATCHING SAIGON FALLING INTO HELL.
GOD BLESS ALL OF US WHO FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND WON EVERY CONFRONTATION.
Thank you veterans!!!
Thank you all for your generous service it definitely was a difficult time but you are much loved and appreciated
“Thank you” will never be enough, especially when it wasn’t said at the time it would have mattered most. The best we can do all these years later, is to remember our Viet Nam vets and honor them.
THAT 150,000 WOUNDED DOES NOT INCLUDE AO AFFECTED. I AM 100% DISABLED BY VA FOR AO. WHEN WILL WE RECEIVE OUR MEDALS?
I BELIEVE WE ALL DESERVE PURPLE HEART FOR WAR WOUNDED VET.
Why does this day continue to be a non factor to many Americans? Why doesnt our government reach and help these Veterans? It’s a shame that the modern day soldiers considered hero and Vietnam soldiers are not. Those brothers and sisters that I served with, all are my heroes. We are all a very close group and are considered family. I always feel at peace when around them. Wake up American. Do what’s right!