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Expatriate 
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Posted on: Aug. 30 2015,7:47 am |
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I can only remember one Vietnam War protest in Albert Lea, the Lea College students along with a few local students marched up Clark St.
If you were in the Military in those days you were required to wear your uniform to receive the Military discount for transportation by plane, train, or bus. The Military didn’t give you travel vouchers so travel was at your expense!
I was lucky enough to get leave after basic and also got another leave before I was shipped overseas, meaning I traveled all over America in uniform from 1969-71, no one ever gave me any disrespect.
When I got back to the Oakland Overseas Replacement Station in 71, khakis were the travel uniform, we didn’t have civilian clothes.
As for warnings given by the military, they weren’t worried about the flower children, they were more concerned about us being robbed by local Oakland thieves.
No matter your military status DEROS or ETS you had back pay, leave pay coming, the military paid you in cash in those days so we all had a nice chunk of change in our pockets.
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Marneman
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Posted on: Aug. 31 2015,1:15 am |
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Haven't heard the final numbers yet, but they had a big turnout on Saturday. I was impressed with some of the displays they had to veiw, and the airshow was pretty good too. I was a little bummed that the CH-47 Chinook helicopter wasn't able to make the show due to the weather(the stormfront that moved through Friday was between us and their homebase in Mich.), but overall it was a good celebration especially for all the vets involved.
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Liberal
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Posted on: Aug. 31 2015,9:07 am |
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So I can add yet another Vietnam era vet that wasn't attacked by protesters? Being a 20 year old MP NCO, with Air Assault wings, jungle expert badge, two Army commendation medals, and being on the cover of soldier magazine I got stuck recruiting at High schools all over the south, Back then they called it a TEIR team for Total Involvement in recruiting. The only team about it was whatever MP came with would load and operate the slide projector while I gave a speech and then had a question and answer session
The only part I liked was debunking all the crazy war stories from friends and relatives. If they brought up relatives being mistreated after Vietnam I'd always ask for more information and the story would collapse over the simplest questions. Best BS story I evee heard was this kid in Muscle Shoals high school told me his drill sergeant made his uncle bury a tank with an entrenching tool. I didn't really debunk that I just laughed and said, "Have you seen the size of a tank?"
Also being a young NCO with a fancy uniform I got stuck with all kinds of crappy duty assignments like guarding General's parties but the one thing cool about that is I got a chance to meet a lot of senior NCOs like Sergeant Majors and Command Sergeant Majors. And one of the questions I always asked was about the Vietnam treatment. And to a soldier not one ever had a problem with protesters, and nealry everyone I talked to said they wouldn't have stood for it and would have beat the snot out of them.
Also as an MP I was pretty well versed in the UCMJ, state, and Federal law and there is nothing that says you have to take crap from some dope smoking hippies that didn't have the balls to serve, like Maddog.
I'm not saying it never happened but going by the lack of news reports on dope smoking hippies getting their teeth knocked out I'm calling BS.
Also the VFWs made that decision locally and had more to di with the generation gap.
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Aug. 31 2015,12:04 pm |
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(Marneman @ Aug. 31 2015,1:15 am)
QUOTE Haven't heard the final numbers yet, but they had a big turnout on Saturday. I was impressed with some of the displays they had to veiw, and the airshow was pretty good too. I was a little bummed that the CH-47 Chinook helicopter wasn't able to make the show due to the weather(the stormfront that moved through Friday was between us and their homebase in Mich.), but overall it was a good celebration especially for all the vets involved.
I thought it was a huge crowd on Saturday. I planned on coming back on Sunday, but with the weather similar in the morning to Saturday I didn't. I heard they parked over 5000 cars on Saturday. Some of the reports were modest to say the least. KIMT reported over 50 motorcycles in an escort for the wall. I guess close to 300 cycles is over 50, isn't it?  By the end on the day last Monday, they had over 5000 vets signed up. I don't know though if that was 5000 vets or 5000 including spouses.
Thursday I saw many, many buses of schools coming in, but donm't know how many. On Friday it rained all day, yet 12 school buses full of kids showed up.
OK, just heard some preliminaries...over 15,000 on Saturday and 8,500 on Sunday.
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Expatriate
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Posted on: Sep. 01 2015,7:19 am |
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My modem was making a roaring sound so thought I’d discount, reboot and see if it resolved the problem.
I pick it up in an effort to see if the card was burnt, when I turned it over I noticed a placard, Made in Vietnam.
thanks a lot Charter
there’s your welcome home maddog, it’s all about money, always has been always will be..
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Posted on: Sep. 01 2015,12:03 pm |
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Veitnam has a very large manufacturing base now, making some quality products 
I suppose you could buy you electronic goods in the states. 
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Sep. 04 2015,6:11 pm |
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Saw a 60 Minutes type show once that was showing how even China's manufacturing wasn't even cheap enough, any more.
So China needed their own 'China' so to speak. That's when you started to see Indonesia and Vietnam, listed as country of origin, instead of China, Korea or Japan.
The were teaching everyone to speak Chinese, as well.
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Sep. 04 2015,6:25 pm |
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(MADDOG @ Aug. 31 2015,12:04 pm)
QUOTE
(Marneman @ Aug. 31 2015,1:15 am)
QUOTE Haven't heard the final numbers yet, but they had a big turnout on Saturday. I was impressed with some of the displays they had to veiw, and the airshow was pretty good too. I was a little bummed that the CH-47 Chinook helicopter wasn't able to make the show due to the weather(the stormfront that moved through Friday was between us and their homebase in Mich.), but overall it was a good celebration especially for all the vets involved. I thought it was a huge crowd on Saturday. I planned on coming back on Sunday, but with the weather similar in the morning to Saturday I didn't. I heard they parked over 5000 cars on Saturday. Some of the reports were modest to say the least. KIMT reported over 50 motorcycles in an escort for the wall. I guess close to 300 cycles is over 50, isn't it? By the end on the day last Monday, they had over 5000 vets signed up. I don't know though if that was 5000 vets or 5000 including spouses. Thursday I saw many, many buses of schools coming in, but donm't know how many. On Friday it rained all day, yet 12 school buses full of kids showed up. OK, just heard some preliminaries...over 15,000 on Saturday and 8,500 on Sunday.
I guess it would have been pretty hard to ignore. And would have pretty much dwarfed any other entertainment options in that hamlet.
Do you guys still have a Pamida there? 
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Sep. 05 2015,8:10 am |
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(hymiebravo @ Sep. 04 2015,6:25 pm)
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(MADDOG @ Aug. 31 2015,12:04 pm)
QUOTE I thought it was a huge crowd on Saturday. I planned on coming back on Sunday, but with the weather similar in the morning to Saturday I didn't. I heard they parked over 5000 cars on Saturday. Some of the reports were modest to say the least. KIMT reported over 50 motorcycles in an escort for the wall. I guess close to 300 cycles is over 50, isn't it? By the end on the day last Monday, they had over 5000 vets signed up. I don't know though if that was 5000 vets or 5000 including spouses. Thursday I saw many, many buses of schools coming in, but donm't know how many. On Friday it rained all day, yet 12 school buses full of kids showed up. OK, just heard some preliminaries...over 15,000 on Saturday and 8,500 on Sunday. I guess it would have been pretty hard to ignore. And would have pretty much dwarfed any other entertainment options in that hamlet. Do you guys still have a Pamida there?
Nope, no Pamida anymore. Been replaced by Shopko Hometown (merger). Before Pamida, it was Gibson's.
I guess it was entertainment with people still honoring the Vietnam vets. As far as other events, it equaled the Tree Town Festival in attendance.
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