“I go the VA monthly for treatments and medication,” he said. “My wife, Dianne, is just a wonderful supporter.”
He said his pain from Vietnam memories decreased as he buried them further and further in his mind, but his health trauma brought it all back.
“I just really enjoyed it,” he said of his 20-year military career. “What I was doing was really rewarding.”
In the 1970s, going into the military didn’t strike Murra as unusual. It was just what people his age did.
Hardly moot. It means the Trumpists fucked the GOP and by extension, the country. They need to repent or be purged from the party once this election is over.
Ross was drafted into the Army and was in Vietnam for 364 days in 1970-71. “I was actually there exactly a year — but I lost a day coming back,” he said with a laugh.
ALEXANDER — When Don Latham returned on leave from Vietnam for his brother’s wedding, he didn’t think he’d make it home again.
Even so, upon landing in Oakland, California, he said he and other soldiers were met with protesters who threw beer bottles. Military police ushered the returning soldiers into bathrooms to change out of uniform.
“There were some battles where as soon as you got one landed (and) got the people off, there’d be one right behind it waiting to come in,” Eggers said. “Then you’d unload the dead and the wounded out of that one and another one would come right behind it.”
Kelley, of Nora Springs, changed in the airport bathroom, threw his Army uniform in the garbage and walked out the door.
“I sat in a Marine bunker with a Marine like a half a mile away, because there was no way I could drive back to the compound,” Tripp said. “So, I just parked on the road and ran into his bunker and we sat there and watched the fireworks.”
“It was quite a shock, yes,” he said of Tucson. “I’d never really been in a large city before so it was different. Of course, the heat there is a lot different than it is here, too.”
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