This is the upcoming weekend for a heroes' welcome finally coming. Many of us know what kind of welcome our soldiers got when they came home from Vietnam. They were told to burn their uniforms, told they should probably not wear they in public and certainly not talk about it.
This weekend a group of members of the VFW posts locally here got together and decided to have a welcome home hoopla long past deserved. Several area Legions heard about it and joined. More and more came wanting to be part of it.
It looks like this thing got REALLY big. I think they are expecting (what I heard) as many as 20,000 people coming to this event.
Operation LZ is a four (five counting the arrival of the travelling wall) day event honoring those who served. Thursday and Friday are aimed as educational days for local areas schools . Saturday and Sunday will feature aircraft rides, sky jumpers, air shows, music by Rockie Lynne and speakers; Retired Lieutenant General Dennis J. Hejlik USMC, Governor Terry Branstad, and Navy Lt. Commnander Larry Spencer ~ 7 year Hanoi Hilton Prisoner.
-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
The Vietnam Memorial travelling wall arrived yesterday afternoon. Also the arrival of at least one Cobra AH-1 (?)and one Huey HU-1 (?) seen flying around already. I did hear over 5000 veterans had registered to come as of Monday. Registration is closed, but they are announcing to all veterans who didn't, just come on in and share and observe and be present. This is your weekend to be honored for your service.
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-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
Yes, I do honor the vets. I can honor the uniform, but not necessarily the man wearing it just as I can like a sports team, but not one of it's members. Just because I see no honor in Bowe Bergdahl doesn't mean I don't honor the branch he serves or the others who defend our country.
-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
You're delusional. Also when I was in the Army every single time I met a Vietnam vet I'd ask them if they knew of any first hand information of people calling them baby killers or spitting on them. Not one person knew of it happening and the vast majority said pretty much the same thing, that they'd beat you dope smoking hippies half to death if you ever spit on them or even looked at them wrong.
That was always the craziest urban legend, I always wondered why a soldier would be intimidated by you hippie trash.
-------------- The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
I know a lot of veterans who served in 'nam and I've never asked them a question like that.
You sound like an arrogant POG
-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
I hope that the people who do see this and want to attend and honor these men and women can see through the personal attacks.
-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
Yes, I do honor the vets. I can honor the uniform, but not necessarily the man wearing it just as I can like a sports team, but not one of it's members. Just because I see no honor in Bowe Bergdahl doesn't mean I don't honor the branch he serves or the others who defend our country.
Yah gee, gosh. You know I'm just not feeling it from yah dare.
Looking forward to attending tommorrow (whoops!, I mean today). My father returned from Vietnam in April 1969. He flew from Saigon to Seattle, arriving there about 2 o'clock in the morning. The first thing after getting off the plane he had some REMF E-5 MP giving him crap because his combat boots weren't shined! (The majority of men on his flight were wearing fatigues on the flight, and they landed at the MAC terminal in Seattle). Then they were told they shouldn't wear their Class-A's when they went to the civilian terminal because there were anti-war protesters there. Well most of the men like my father didn't have civilian cloths with them so they had to wear their uniforms. Sure enough there where protestors at the airport(apparently they worked in shifts) and my father and other soldiers had to go through a gaunlet of them to get to their respective flights home. As for hitting back, my father would have loved to, but UCMJ regulations forbid soldiers from striking back for this kind of abuse. To top it all off when he returned here, to Albert Lea, My grandfather, a WWII vet, took my Father to the local VFW for a welcome home drink. When they walked in the VFW he was met about halfwy in by another WWII vet that told him to get out because Vietnam vets weren't welcome there. A lot has changed in the last fortyfive years since then (like the local VFW getting a dose of Karma), and we here in the US have come to grips with our guilt over the way these vetrans were treated when they came home. Events like this are long overdue to welcome these men and women who served in Vietnam home.
