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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Teresa Heilevang on March 03, 2010, 01:47:39 AM
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Someone spent a lot of time on this and it is truly remarkable...........to all my fellow Vietnam Vets take a look...........................
Someone sent me the link below which is a virtual wall of all those lost during the Viet Nam war with the names, bio's and other information on our lost comrades. It is a very interesting link, and those who served in that timeframe and lost friends or family can look them up on this site. Pass it on to other veterans who you think would like this.
First click on a state......then when it opens .........a name.......then it should show you a picture of the person or at least his bio and medals......
http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm
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Excellent site M'ette. Way to make a guy choke up a little at work. I'm to young to know many people that were killed in VN but the couple that I do know were good people from everything that I have ever heard. Why is it that is the case with situations like that? It is never the Ass Hats that get killed in combat
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Same reason the drunk driver always seems to be the one that survives the accident. Damned if I know what that reason is though. :-\
FQ13
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Thanks, M'ette...
I served back then...and strong emotions about those times.
I cannot help but feel that all who served then were "brothers", and I mourn those who gave all, though I know some were scum bags, I never had to see any of them.....
There was a time right after I returned home that I felt such anger at this country. Not like Kerry but opposite. I saw how returning vets were treated...called names, spit on...the whole range of the protest movement's hate and I felt that this country did not deserve the commitment those who served gave. I threw my duffel bag in a dumpster, uniforms, medals and all, an act I soon regretted. I was young and full of anger, not really at the Country, but at the attitude.
I wept watching the troops returning from the 1st Gulf War, so thankful they were being received as Heroes. But I felt much pain again that those from "My War" were treated so disrespectfully.
Today I see the token "we support our troops, but not the war" attitude of some politicians, but feel there is support in the populace. I know that support was there way back then too, it just never made the news....
sigh...
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Today I see the token "we support our troops, but not the war" attitude of some politicians, but feel there is support in the populace. I know that support was there way back then too, it just never made the news....
sigh...
The media can't control what the people talk about as much with the internet. You can hear the stories from the people that have lived it and otherwise support troops and the war effort.
They do the best they can of reporting what they want. Unfortunately it only hurts good people now.
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Great find M'ette!!
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Forwarded to my old platoon sergeant.
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There's also this web page
http://www.vvmf.org/ (http://www.vvmf.org/)
As for me, I served during that era and "visited" most countries in the western pacific, except Viet Nam.
One of my family name " Sauve' " is on the wall. I always feel like he bore the burden for the rest of us.
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Thanks, M'ette.
There are six names from my little area of the world on the Wall.
They are not forgotten.
All six, one a Medal of Honor recipient, are honored and remembered, by those who appreciate and revere the sacrifice, in a ceremony on each Memorial Day and on a monument in our Veterans Memorial Garden downtown........and even that is so little........ compared to the price paid.