Posted on 04/29/2006 12:07:27 PM PDT by groanup
My daughter's history teacher made this claim in class last week: "I don't believe Viet Nam veterans were mistreated when they came back from the war. I don' know any who were."
Would any and all Viet Nam vets please tell us how you were treated when you came back from Nam? I'll print out this thread and give it to the teacher.
More facts for anyone who is interested.
http://www.vhcma.org/fact2.html
Check out The Homecoming (Paperback)
by Bob Greene
It never made any newspapers, but on my first trip back, mid 1970, I was already on the plane with my jacket off when a young woman boarded and sat next to me with her daughter, maybe 7 or 8.
We took off from Seattle headed towards St.Louis where I would change flights to go on home in Florida. We chatted and I played games with the little girl the entire way, a nice flight and fun, after finishing one year in Nam.
When the plane landed, as usual, we all got our things together to head off to wherever. When I reached under the seat and pulled out my greens jacket and put it on, complete with appropiate Army badges and such, she snatched her daughter back away from me yelling get away from the killer!
The whole plane turned to see her as she literally ran out of the plane, best she could. No one said a word and ignored the whole thing. I just got what I had and left the plane for the next flight.
A good thread over on Swift Vets. Articles listed at the bottom of the thread.
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20976
thanks
I just saw this book -- Stolen Valor
How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley
From the web site: http://www.stolenvalor.com/index.htm
"B.G. Burkett, in over ten years of research in the National Archives, filing hundreds of requests for military documents under the Freedom of Information Act., uncovered a massive distortion of history, a distortion that has cost the U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. Mr. Burkett's work has toppled national political leaders and put criminals in jail.
The authors show killers who have fooled the most astute prosecutors and gotten away with murder, phony heroes who have become the object of award-winning documentaries on national network television, and liars and fabricators who have flooded major publishing houses with false tales of heroism which have become best-selling biographies.
Not only do Burkett and Whitley show the price of the myth has been enormous for society, but they spotlight how it has severely denigrated the service, patriotism, and gallantry of the best warriors America ever produced.
I don't believe asteroids have ever landed on this planet and caused mass extinctions. I don't know any that landed.
This statement is about at the same level of idiocy as your daughter's teacher. If he didn't see it it doesn't exist?
Bought it and read it last year. Excellent book, in my estimation.
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