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Yeah I remember being in grade school when the boys got home from Vietnam 🇻🇳, I remember my teachers didn’t want to talk about the war, soldiers etc. there was much disrespect towards soldiers back stateside. Many in society even the ww2 generation did not like it that we went over to Vietnam 🇻🇳. Then as we progressed I remember when president Reagan dedicated the Vietnam war memorial in the early 1980’s, and he tried to bring everyone together to heal and I think he did. Reagan loved his wife, and he and Nancy placed flowers 🌺 at the tomb of the unknown from Vietnam and also put a note near the Vietnam war memorial. Back then president Reagan was worried that the government in Vietnam 🇻🇳 was holding USA 🇺🇸 soldiers after the war, and demanded proof and also started the dig sites for crashes to locate remains of fallen soldiers. Thank you Vietnam Veterans

People who did this to these men should not be Americans. Put them in boots and send them in a war zone and see how they like it. I have 2 things to say these and all the other Vietnam Veterans Thank You for your service and a Huge Welcome Home every time I see an American flag i salute it for all the ones who lost their lives in the war. And as Merle Haggard sang "You're Walking On The Fightin Side of Me.

I experienced some of what a Viet Nam vet went through after they came home just by being with my husband and seeing him run for cover during thunder storms, or the restless fitful nightmares he endured, or his own uncle calling him baby killer even though it was a different unit, or the horrible skin eruptions and boils from having agent orange dumped directly overhead !! The list is extensive. Then for the VA to deny the ptsd symptoms and tell him(on record) that those symptoms manifested in childhood from his mother!! He was one of the guys that had to clear out the tunnels in Viet Nam and the VA told him his ptsd was from his mother!! It’s no wonder he lost his trust!!

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Iam from NJ went to viet nam 1967. I was with 9th Inf., came home 1969 , I was picked by my dad in fort Dix.. I didn;t say much my dad knew what I went thur he was a vet too in 2 wars,.. my room was the same way I left it, my mom just closed my door and never when it unit I came home i went to sleep on the floor did not get in the bed.. middle of nite went into woods . I did't come home until day lite.. My cusin took to a bar in town guy did not serv me me because my cusin told him I was in Vietnam 2yrs.. he told me and my cusin to leave .. more happen but thats it.. people just look at you....

I went from working on 55 million dollar aircraft to the Ford assembly line in two weeks. I also returned to a country that was very hostile to Vets.

Thank you all. I am a Marine Corps veteran myself, I got hurt in an off duty accident four days after September 11th. I had three uncles over there, my mom told me that y'all never got that, because the public saw what war was.

One of my teachers was a U.S. Naval Aviator who got into a fight with a hippie at an Airport Terminal. Police took them all to the station. The local police chief was a Korean War vet who had successfully made his way from the Chosin Reservoir to the Port of Hungnam. Like most Marines, he would never admit to thinking much of a ‘squid’, but remembered how the Navy pilots held back the ChiComs with rockets and napalm so he and his buddies could be evacuated. My teachers arrest report ‘went missing’ and he was released.

What a load of BS. Almost ever GI came home through Travis AFB. There were no hippies on that base. This spitting myth just keeps going. Give it a rest. It DID NOT HAPPEN.

Labor Day 1971 after 390 days in the field with my M-16 off the Cambodian border, 11B. No one said a word to me about anything, it was like I had never been gone ... absolute and total indifference and I was dressed in new Greens so it was apparent I was in the Army and I had my CIB

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I got called a baby killer by who I thought was one of My best friends. My father wouldn't pick Me up at the airport. I still had a year and a half to do in the Army. W T F.

Very interesting watching this is 2024

I hope these people who gave these men shit are very proud of "their service" to the country. Joe Ryan A/3/503 173RD AIRBORNE INFANTRY BRIGADE

😄 That Tom Chalfant looks like Tom Jones

it was the opposite of what i thought it would be,,no spitting hippies but very straight looking conservative types did their best to FK me over,,including the sub human i was married to

Meanwhile the politicians who caused the war...got rich off the war were...give a free a pass and got reelected over and over....

Some,of us were not even welcomed home by are own family members,that hurt!We shut up,and did not talk for along time!

Thankfully I was never spit on or threatened or otherwise treated badly when I came home. The thing that bothered me was that I would have been glad to talk about my Vietnam experience but nobody ever asked me. Not one person has ever asked me what it was like over there. My wife and fellow vets know what it was like and everybody else doesn’t care. Can’t really blame them.

I was in the Navy. I changed clothes in the car before going off base. While there were protests just off base the base police kept them under control.

When I got out in 68 after three years RA (Sgt E 5 MPC) at Logan Airport in Boston I was treated like shit until my folks picked me up. The next day I burnt all my stuff, I am sorry i did many years later, To this day when someone "thanks me for my service" I want to puke on their shoes! Fuck the USA! I moved to Canada after my service and NEVER want to go back to that hell hole!

Oh my god, I am in tears.. THank you

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Didn't wear the uniform in town? Young marines talking cookies from flower hippie girls and acting funny after wards? Yep, saw it all.

Please know that I appreciate you and thank you for your Service!! God bless!!🩷🙏🙏🩷

The way how they were treated when they came home disgust me to those old hippi motherfuckers you should be ashamed of yourselfs

That's marvellous: the guy whose fathers' respect meant so much to him.

Thank you for all that served!

California should succeed from the union because liberal communist!

You have too keep in mind this was the first time American war crimes were published in the news. Massacres and other atrocities. People back home thought this was a usual thing

I had a totally different experience returning from the Gulf War. I never knew this much hate. At a refuel point for 2 hrs, we go off the plane so I picked up a couple local newspapers and a 6 pack of cold pepsies. Pulling out my wallet to pay, I was stopped and was given a couple more of other local papers and another 6 pack. I could not believe the smells of a woman's shampoo or a nearby steaks burning. I had perfected self control to an extensive level that did not hit me for about a week.

All the spitters went into academia and the democratic party

Im a black Vietnam combat veteran and i was used to getting spit on and chased out of stores as a kid by white cops and store owners for trying to buy bread and milk when i was a kid . I know the feeling before it happened!

I'm sure my experience was not unique. I was treated with respect and courteousness and people went out of their way for me. I only regret that I didn't thank them more and get their names so I could thank them again. I have thought many times that I should write my story, maybe I will someday. Viet Nam from Easter 1968 until April 11th 1969. Americal Division, infantry.

"Mainly on the WEST coast".. 🙄

I personally would like thank buddy the elf for his service.

My father is a Vietnam veteran and he watched his birthday come up on the national lottery. His birthday was the first on the second column. He said his family screamed and cried and he was in shock... He said his first thought was he wasn't coming home.. he did come home and he said he was treated so badly that he didn't want to tell anyone that he was there. 😢 He is 74 years old and he still has nightmares about being there. My father is my hero. He's everything to me and he said he was more scared coming back home then he was in Vietnam. 😢

So shameful how they were treated!!! I hope this never happens to any other veterans again

Some hippies sure have short memories with the Veterans fighting for your freedoms

I am so sorry for those experiences....so shameful.... Those men, every last one of them are Heroes...

God bless good luck

I spent 2 years in Vietnam i left in 1964 and returned in 1966. It was a different ciuntry. Long hair hippies drugs the Beatles and contempt in the civil sector for the military. So I shrugged got out of the Marine Corp put my uniforms in the closet bought a new 1967 427 435hp Corvette took my GI Bill and went to college and grad school and got myself a life. I never joined any other organization. I never voted for a politician or trusted one. I watched the US military crumble during and after the Vietnam war. Watched it be rebult by the patriots that stayed in watched it take 106 hours to dest r oy the Iraqis in Kuwait then watched the next 30 years of political bullshit and stupidity and lies destroy the US and its military again . Im old now. I have no relatives children or grand children. I have never had anything but contempt for the political parties in the US both of which are incredibly corrupt and owned in fee simple by foreign countries large corporations and billionaire tech oligarchs. Nor do I have much regard for the American voters who in the main know nothing of what is happening and why to their federal republic have no knowledge of geography history economics or critical thinking BUT believe with all their heartthat they are massively entitled....to what their ancestors paid in blood and treasure for. Now...like the Roman empire in the early 5th century its all beginning to come apart. There have been signs and portents of the di d integration of the US and its global reach for over 20 years. Indeed for the past 3 generations . But no one has heeded them. Before long though it wont be possible for the average citizen to ignore it. Unless they are on a moderate dose of fentanyl.

Less than 4% (four percent) of draft resistors were convicted in the 1960s and 1970s. They all got off easy.

Not in war myself but i saw communism attack this great news country. Sick to my stomach to see it reating history. I want to cry when they wasted our soldiers

Another war we lost.

Earlier I could not understand the treatment of the US soldiers returning BUT, because of the current war mongering going on here in my country I have begun irritate mysefl everytime I see a military man or woman. What I think of them is also that they are kind of brainwashed stupid people beleivng they "protect me" and they do not / Sweden

So true

Thank the good lord for these brave men