I had the great honor to address the valiant Vietnam Freedom Fighters who stood shoulder to shoulder with the US Military in our attempts to bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam. The following is an excerpt of my remarks from today's event:
My brothers it is good to see you to celebrate the 50th American anniversary of the Vietnam War and the 47th Annual Army of the Republic of Vietnam Day.
My brothers it is good to see you to celebrate the 50th American anniversary of the Vietnam War and the 47th Annual Army of the Republic of Vietnam Day.
Colonel Pham and the Organizing Committee, I would like to thank you personally for your extended courtesy.
For the next 13 years our country will mark each year with a remembrance of that war. A war where Americans went to die for a people they never knew in a land far away.
More than 58,000 Americans were killed in action. Ten times that many South Vietnamese soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were injured for one reason: freedom.
We fought with you for your freedom because it is our sacred duty to free men everywhere.
There is an inscription on our Washington State Vietnam Veterans Memorial that was dedicated to all of us who fought in Vietnam which a friend of mine, General Dreps, who spoke here last year wrote: "To all my brothers and sisters who made it back, but never made it home..."
It meant all of us who fought for freedom in Vietnam would be changed. Some of us would lose our homes, others our lives and still others the comfort that we made it back but will never be the same.
We survived to live to tell our children and our children's children that we will never forget the time we fought to become freedom's brothers and those we left behind.
I salute you!
You still owe them an apology for misleading them. I.E. letting them believe you were associated to a generals veterans organization, without clarifying. Telling them you were two years in their country as combat veteran (a clerk typist) and they you actually self awarded the Purple Heart (Mr. Owens letter only said he put you in for it, not that you got it) Why can you not produce the documentation to prove you can wear the medal and drive with the license plates? Is this what kept you from the City Counsel position? May be you did not get the Vietnamese vote and you lost?
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