I'd like to thank all the vets as well, especially Vietnam vets. Seems how you really didn't get much of a welcome home party as the others did, I'd like to make up for it. I know my old man was pretty bothered about the way the GW vets were welcomed home. Took him quite a while to accept that.
I'm a vet...to a degree. Yeah i served 4 years and they consider me a GW veteran, but I don't ever acknowlege it. I feel more as just "one who served" and am glad I had the opertunity to do so and would have gladly continued on if it wasn't for other BS reasons. My old man served in 'nam and I see where you're comming from. He doesn't say much about being over there. I've heard stories, and things from my mom or my grandmother, but he never mentions hardly anything. He was infantry, 3rd Marines, '68-'69. My grandfather was also over there, not sure what years. He was NCOIC EOD. Not really sure exactly when or where, lung cancer got him in '85 before there was a cure so I never really got to get to know him well. He also served as a B-29 tail gunner in WWII and EOD in Korea. My mom was in the Navy durring 'nam as well. You could say that my family has a pretty good military history. Uncles served as well, Army.
So I have to thank you all for what you've done. You more than earned it! As far as I'm concerned you're all my heroes.....