danausmc
07-20-2005, 07:55 PM
When I came home from Vietnam, my cousin, a WW2 Vet invited me to a VFW meeting and I was all but ignored because I was not in a “real” war and so how could I have any kind of problem? All these guys stuck to each other like glue and pretty much ignored the “new” Vets. And you all remember how it felt. I see the same ‘new guys” thirty five years later with the same baloney coming out of their mouths. How in the world can you say you support the troops and then ignore them when they get home?
Except for Hue City, this is the most intense house to house fighting since World war Two. Seems to me that no matter how many are killed, the survivors have an obligation to each other and to our posterity to insure the “new guys” don’t go through the same stuff our dads, grandfathers and ourselves had to endure …
So to all you “NEW GUYS”…. Welcome Home, and thank you for a job well done. Your sacrifice is deeply appreciated here.
My great grand father was a Marine in 1/5 during WW1. He died while I was in Vietnam and I looked forward to talking to him but never got the chance. His father in law was in an infantry unit that followed after the “Charge of the Light Brigade” in the Crimean War.
I guess what I’m saying is this, every warrior from every conflict has or had someone from a previous war that had it “far worse” and throw it in their face. THE TRAUMA OF WAR IS THE TRAUMA OF WAR, no matter what.
Our military has been called on time and time again to enforce our foreign policy and protect our interests, so there are hundreds of less known or too soon forgotten engagements Americans and her allies soldiers have lost their lives or are still unaccounted for.
Who remembers the Marines lost over China in 1958? The USS Cole is becoming a memory too….what about all the pilots lost in spy planes in the “cold” war? Or those lost along the Berlin Wall or the DMZ in Korea? You can all name some incident in which our Marines and soldiers, sailors and airmen have lost their lives in the defense of our freedoms, even standing watch right now so you can sleep tonight.
I say again to all of you, new and old alike….Semper Fideles and Thank you for a doing what others failed to do.
WELCOME HOME.
Except for Hue City, this is the most intense house to house fighting since World war Two. Seems to me that no matter how many are killed, the survivors have an obligation to each other and to our posterity to insure the “new guys” don’t go through the same stuff our dads, grandfathers and ourselves had to endure …
So to all you “NEW GUYS”…. Welcome Home, and thank you for a job well done. Your sacrifice is deeply appreciated here.
My great grand father was a Marine in 1/5 during WW1. He died while I was in Vietnam and I looked forward to talking to him but never got the chance. His father in law was in an infantry unit that followed after the “Charge of the Light Brigade” in the Crimean War.
I guess what I’m saying is this, every warrior from every conflict has or had someone from a previous war that had it “far worse” and throw it in their face. THE TRAUMA OF WAR IS THE TRAUMA OF WAR, no matter what.
Our military has been called on time and time again to enforce our foreign policy and protect our interests, so there are hundreds of less known or too soon forgotten engagements Americans and her allies soldiers have lost their lives or are still unaccounted for.
Who remembers the Marines lost over China in 1958? The USS Cole is becoming a memory too….what about all the pilots lost in spy planes in the “cold” war? Or those lost along the Berlin Wall or the DMZ in Korea? You can all name some incident in which our Marines and soldiers, sailors and airmen have lost their lives in the defense of our freedoms, even standing watch right now so you can sleep tonight.
I say again to all of you, new and old alike….Semper Fideles and Thank you for a doing what others failed to do.
WELCOME HOME.