Remembering Viet Nam.....
Viet Nam had a profound effect on everyone
who lived during that time but especially on the young men and women of the military who
had the misfortune to be sent there. These were honorable soldiers who were dishonored by
politics over which they had no control. What happened to them in Viet Nam was worsened by
how we treated them when they came home. We shamed them for serving their country.
With gratitude and pride I dedicate
this site to them.
They are no less heroes than those who have served their country
before or since.
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Thanks, Doc!
sacrilege of
sacrificed youth ©
why are you angry? bitter?
a "doubting thomas"?
are we not both children of faith
in god? america? and
all mankind?
patriots.
with pride we enlisted in the military.
we wanted to serve our country.
to preserve honor and freedom.
the glory of america.
i am sorry, little brother, that vietnam
happened then.
sorry that you were only a
seventeen year old marine. and
anguished that i, a woman
in the army, could not go instead. or
at least, with you.
i can understand your frustration.
fighting, with friends dying,
in a war that wasn't a war.
i too learned of politics. of bureaucratic
whitewash. and games that generals
play with little toy soldiers on
topographic maps.
of propagandism. manipulated press.
and mindless powers that sent little toy
soldiers to be killed by real bullets....
but why are you angry? bitter?
a "doubting thomas"?
are we not both children of faith
in god? america? and
all mankind?
patriots.
with pride.....
©"Thoughts that stay with me
about Viet Nam..."
It was a nightly parade on the six o'
clock news.... somber soldiers loading flag draped, government issue caskets into traffic
jams of black, non-feeling, hearses while the grieving sound of taps counted cadence and a
voice (free of any emotion) read the names of those who were "coming
home."
We hated watching but we were afraid not to, just in case
it was....
my little brother joined the
Marines three days after he graduated from high school at the age
of seventeen. He was just a boy like the majority of his comrades, but if patriotism is a
gage for man hood, they were most assuredly men! Youth died quickly in Viet Nam. He
left his in Van Tong and Chu Lai with the bodies of his friends who gave their lives
there. Youth was something sealed in a black body bag stamped "contents
unviewable" and shipped home draped with an American flag in a sanctimonious attempt
to dignify the sacrifice. Although he eventually left Viet Nam, Viet Nam has never left him. It's been more than
forty
years since his life was neutralized by agent orange and the horrors of a war that
"wasn't a war".
Cheryl Harvey Hill
Veteran WAC/ARNG/US Army
Please
visit the websites of Gunny Fallon. You are sure to be enlightented.
An excellent site dedicated to those who served in Korea
Subject: The American
GI - Most influential person of the century
One of the best military graphics sites on the WWW.
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