it appears some do find some sort of closure by returning to the scene of the er....all I can say is “should I ever return, I will most certainly not tell any of them which unit I served in combat. The simple “drift” of many of our missions, would in their minds, merit almost any disasterous motion.
You’d be suprised at how so many have moved on. What has always been remarkable about the people in the South is their incredible reslience and stoicism, and that nearly 50% are under 40, and so actually recall little or nothing of the war anyway but for what they’ve been taught in school.
And if what one seeks is of all the people in all the world who love Americans even nearly beyond themselves, it’s here, from south of Saigon to the old DMZ and all points west.