[LadyX]

Thank you, dear friend, for posting this thread, appropriately, on the actual day of observance;
and for pointing out Decoration Day, still celebrated in the South.

It is a fact many Americans actively demonstrated against our involvement in Nam and vilified our own military.
I know, because I then was a military wife, home alone with three children, without ANY support even from military wives on the base where I remained and taught in the base school.

Everyone pretended it wasn't happening, lest THEIR husband be tapped to go.

One did not speak of it to civilians for obvious reasons.
America's behavior, turning their backs on our military heroes, was a disgrace, and so many veterans were left with not only the horror of what they experienced, but of abandonment by their country.
The latter was worse than the battle scars.

NEVER AGAIN, you reading this who serve today.
WE SUPPORT YOU, AND WILL NOT FORGET YOU.

[Billie]

Maggie, thank you so much. You're a dear friend, and thank you and your husband both for serving and loving our country.