Welcome home, Vietnam Veterans
We owe you a debt we can never satisfactorily repay. A debt which many Americans don’t even know that we owe you. Today is the only thing we can manage, apparently, so enjoy it.
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Thanks Jonn.
Honor and Courage
Welcome Home and Thank You for your service and sacrifice to our country!
My thanks and admiration to those of you went over there, especially those who put steel on target and got the missions accomplished, in spite of an incompetent government, dishonest leftist press, and a mostly disinterested and uninformed American public.
And particularly to my fellow Marines, Semper Fi and Well Done. You made up less than 9 percent of all Americans in uniform, yet suffered over 26 percent of all casualties in Vietnam.
To my Dad and father-in-law Joe,
Today is officially ‘Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day’. I just wanted to take the time to thank you for your service and sacrifice on behalf of our nation! We, as a Nation, owe you a debt we can never satisfactorily repay. A debt which many Americans don’t even know that we owe you. For far too long, many Vietnam veterans, your return home was not reflective of your sacrifice. You were made to feel unwelcome and unappreciated. On behalf of the 58,000 brothers and sisters who made the ultimate sacrifice and more than 300,000 wounded, I want to let you all know that I, as an American and fellow veteran, will never forget! God bless you and keep! Thanks, for doing what you had to do!
~A Proud Son & Son-in-law of a Vietnam Veteran
OIF II Vet & Purple Heart Recipient
Thanks
#2 should be “Thank you ALL…”
Thank you all for the service you’ve given and thank you, Jonn, for helping keep our eyes focused on things such as this.
Especially, thanks to my uncle Paul Motlely, USMC, my uncle Wayne Hutchison, Army, later a Ky state trooper who was killed in ’75 in the line of duty, and my brother-in-law, Joe Temkiewicz, Army, and every one of you who went to VietNam or made yourselves available to go. Thank you to all of those at home who DID offer them the welcome and support they deserved.
And thank God for my mother- who never let me forget what they did for our country and what our country did to them.
and i want to thank the academy…. <<>>
Thanks Jonn.
Honor & Courage! B 2/5 Cav
Semper Paratus! D 1/12th Cav
Considered doing a post about this, but that would be kinda like being the only one around to wish yourself happy birthday. Thanks Jonn.
For myself: Wasn’t in the mud, but could smell it.
Wasn’t in the jungle, but could see it.
Didn’t fly combat missions, but helped rescue some that did.
Got shot at, and shot back.
Then we all came home and shared a thing or two that was just maybe more important.
Got spit at, and called names.
Went to the VFW (et al) and were turned away.
‘Lost’ our uniforms and shrunk a bit when Vietnam was mentioned.
Not all, perhaps, but many learned to just stay out of sight.
But we watched…
Somewhere, somehow, something unspoken grew.
From that amorphous beginning a simple two word phrase started being heard… Never Again!
Never again will our military come home to unanswered curses and finger pointing.
That torch has been handed on quite nicely, so I feel free to answer your thanks with; You Are Welcome!
[…] March 30 2011 – Welcome Home Vietnam Vets Posted on March 30, 2011 by Ponsdorf Considered doing a post about this, but that would be kinda like being the only one around to wish yourself happy birthday. Thanks Jonn. […]
Welcome back to you, too. You kids did damn’ well carrying the torch we passed to you…