Put action behind empty veterans honors

Do folks personally apologize for the way Vietnam veterans were treated, being spit on after returning from a war they didn’t start? How do folks assist veterans suffering from poisoining in Vietnam by Agent Orange, the chemical the public was told would do no harm to humans, who are on oxygen?

Who helps the World War II veterans we see returning from the Honor Flights when they need snow shoveled or lawns mowed, ensures they receive one nutritional meal every day or takes them to a doctor or vision appointment?

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Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day

Vietnam Veterans Day is two days, March 29 & March 30 (they more than deserve two! and it has been proclaimed by a Senator and the President)

If you know a Vietnam Vet, please let them know from all of us how very much we appreciate all that they did and sacrificed.

Please see the proclamations by BOTH parties below

Sen. Richard Burr, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, introduced the resolution, calling it “a day to give our Vietnam veterans a warm, long-overdue welcome home.”

For full Resolution: http://www.pva.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ajIRK9NJLcJ2E&b=6350111&ct=11677801

and then a year later:

VIETNAM VETERANS DAY
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

On January 12, 1962, United States Army pilots lifted more than 1,000 South Vietnamese service members over jungle and underbrush to capture a National Liberation Front stronghold near Saigon. Operation Chopper marked America's first combat mission against the Viet Cong, and the beginning of one of our longest and most challenging wars. Through more than a decade of conflict that tested the fabric of our Nation, the service of our men and women in uniform stood true. Fifty years after that fateful mission, we honor the more than 3 million Americans who served, we pay tribute to those we have laid to rest, and we reaffirm our dedication to showing a generation of veterans the respect and support of a grateful Nation...

...we pay tribute to the fallen, the missing, the wounded, the millions who served, and the millions more who awaited their return. Our Nation stands stronger for their service, and on Vietnam Veterans Day, we honor their proud legacy with our deepest gratitude.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 29, 2012, as Vietnam Veterans Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the Vietnam War.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

BARACK OBAMA

For full Proclamation:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/29/presidential-proclamation-vietnam-veterans-day

God bless, protect and lead our troops

VA Backlog to be Honored on Veterans Day

Paperwork, USA - On November 11, 2013, the United States will be honoring its myriad heroes: the fallen fighters, the surviving soldiers, and the longest-surviving paperwork this country has ever seen. This year, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will be honored for vehemently doing nothing about its piles and piles of disability claims.
 
"These are the guys that deserve to be recognized"” said one veteran. "I only served in Afghanistan for 4 years. These claims, though--they’ve been serving that one tiny office for longer than I’ve been alive"”

Continue Learning:  http://www.gomerblog.com/2013/10/va-backlog/

Paying tribute to Vietnam veterans

The hundreds of spectators who lined the Oktemberfest parade route on Main Street Saturday did their best to make up for what many Americans didn't do 38 years ago.

They welcomed home a group of approximately 40 Vietnam veterans who marched or rode in the Grand Parade.

From the time the veterans carrying the welcome home banner crossed the intersection at Ninth and Main Streets, until the parade route's end at the Tallcorn Towers, many in the crowd, young and old, rose from their seats and clapped, cheered, saluted and waved American flags. Some brought hand-lettered signs decorated with American flags, held up high that read "thank you" and "welcome home."

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