[justkate]

"We realize that many of you did not receive the honorable homecoming you deserved as American heroes," Campbell said. "We wanted to make sure that another day doesn't go by when you did not have a proper welcome home."

I wish that this could make up for the truly shameful way these men were treated, but I think not. In spite of it all, these Vets have carried themselves with dignity & have never failed to honor their brothers who did not come home.

If they didn't get the respect & thanks they deserved, and they didn't, this country was forever diminished by it.

[askrenr]

I still carry some baggage from being spit on at the airport when I returned in 1969.