Thanks to Ben for this piece. Sadly, that time period wasn’t the best time to be in uniform regardless of you duty station thanks to the socialist communist POS agitators. Still proud to have served. And, there was a lot of good done. Thanks to those who gave all.
Yes, there are over 58,300 plus inscribed on The Wall, but how many heroes came home and died younger than they should “because” they went to Nam? How many came home and died early because of the crap they were sprayed with and endured?? Their names aren’t on The Wall, but they died because of Nam just not in combat.
My husband lies in a National Cemetery that had 9,400 in that cemetery when his ashes were interred there. In five years, it has grown to over 22,000. Many of these men and women served in Vietnam and died because of it. How many children were born deformed or with health issues because their father served in Vietnam? The horrors of that war live on.