Posted on 11/16/2015 12:29:25 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
An entire generation of American kids was sacrificed to the war on world communism and got no parades, or even thanks.
The same for America’s Korean War vets.
Once upon a time...
Chicago 1986, I was working up at NU just over the Chicago line in Evanston, and with another former grunt!(An unusual event for me.)
People would stop by and ask if we were going to the parade?
we just assumed it was the usual draft dodger politicians and city workers paid to show up.
A nice Friday, someone stopped by to say they heard the parade was big! This was before cell phones, I had a beeper with four line display!
So we gave ourselves an early wiggle, and went home.
IT was all over the news,spontanious and huge!
A report:
It was 11 years after the war ended, a little late to my mind for such an event, and I was busy trying to meet a deadline. I had no intention to leave my office and stand on a curb to watch it until co-workers cajoled me to take 20 minutes off to go take a look.
Organized by a group of veterans, it had been in the works for a year as city officials dragged their feet in issuing permits and logistical support. Not expecting much, once there I could not look away until it ended five hours later, a ragtag procession of 200,000 veterans shuffling along the parade route, dazzled by the cheers of hundreds of thousands of onlookers and confetti rainingdown from office windows.
Sounds wonderful.
A bit late, but better late than never.
No Ray Conniff?
Sgt Sadler wrote and recorded two or three albums with military songs during that time period. I think he committed suicide, iirc.
I was in country 68-69-70, and I do not recall the name?
Perhaps he was popular with the Navy guys?
I heard J Kerry liked Mantovani, he was in VietNam, you know!
Oops, sorry, I did NOT remember correctly. He was shot in the head during a robbery in Guatamala City. He suffered significant brain trauma and died of complications a year later.
It was a veiled “Good Morning, Vietnam” reference.
It must have went ZOOM, right over my head!
Without my hearing aide in, not much.
Yet, even with your note, still nothing!
Google brings me this:
00:22:23 Eddie Kirk here, and Ray Conniff jubilee coming up in just a few moments.
00:22:29 I call it a jubilee. Actually, it’s a Ray Conniff featurette.
00:22:32 Three, maybe four, back-to-back Ray Conniff classics.
00:22:58 We’re here, sir. Jimmy Wah’s.
00:23:03 This is the place where we like to hang out, sir.
Still nothing???
Not to worry!
What are they going to do, send me to VietNam?
THAT’S IT!!!!
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