I had not heard about this until today, but on March 28, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017. This act officially recognizes March 29 to be National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
Did you all know about this?
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March 29, 2018, 05:04 PM
bald1
First heard about it yesterday.
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March 29, 2018, 05:10 PM
cincinnatijim
Thanks to all of our veterans for their service.
Jim
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March 29, 2018, 05:19 PM
charlie12
Welcome back to the world.
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March 29, 2018, 05:37 PM
sigfreund
Thank you. I will let a fellow Viet Vet know as well.
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March 29, 2018, 05:45 PM
Johnny 3eagles
I didn't know about it until this afternoon. I was at Little Rock AFB and the Exchange was giving out cake and coffee and a pin for lapel or hat. Tee shirts don't have lapels so i didn't take a pin.
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March 29, 2018, 05:46 PM
StorminNormin
I just learned about it today on the local evening news.
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March 29, 2018, 06:25 PM
wishfull thinker
I never heard of it until now. Too late to take the day off I guess
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March 29, 2018, 07:12 PM
357fuzz
Excellent. Very good to see. My town has an exact 1/2 sized marble replica of the Vietnam Wall. They had a large ceremony this afternoon for all the Vietnam vets.
March 29, 2018, 07:44 PM
TMats
Welcome home!
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March 29, 2018, 08:27 PM
Scoutmaster
Coincidentaly, we will have a Vietnam Vet, a Navy Captain, speak to our Cubs at Pack Meeting next week.
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March 29, 2018, 10:38 PM
Ragnar
Went to the Dayton,OH V.A. Didn't know about it until they started handing out Vietnam Vet pins.
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March 30, 2018, 12:44 PM
bendable
the quietest learning experience that I have encountered was when I visited the V.N. memorial wall , I thought it would be interesting.
it turned out to be much more. the names, the people and the overwhelming sense of loss and emptiness.
they all deserve much, much more
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March 30, 2018, 01:16 PM
Scoutmaster
quote:
Originally posted by bendable: the quietest learning experience that I have encountered was when I visited the V.N. memorial wall , I thought it would be interesting.
it turned out to be much more. the names, the people and the overwhelming sense of loss and emptiness.
they all deserve much, much more
I was in the Army Reserves during Vietnam (never activated), visited the Wall once, looked up a few names of those I knew. Very humbling.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
March 30, 2018, 04:30 PM
brecaidra
I've been to The Wall, which pretty much everyone knows about, but there is a fantastic memorial in Angel Fire NM that is worth a visit if you get a chance, especially on Memorial Day.
