Posted on Jun 21, 2015
Fort Gordon honors Vietnam vets with welcome home ceremony. Is your post doing this?
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The ceremony included performances from the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and 3rd Infantry Regiment Silent Drill Team. The celebration calmed to a somber mood for cannon fire and playing of Taps to remember lives lost during the war.
Several soldiers who formed an honorary guard around the ceremony with American flags nearly fainted in the heat as others came to relieve their duties. Bottles and cups of water were distributed to the crowd, many who sat in metal bleachers as the temperature approached 90 degrees.
Vietnam veterans, despite the lack of respect they were shown, have been central to welcoming home troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, Baker said.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/fort-gordon-honors-vietnam-vets-with-welcome-home-ceremony-1.353497
Several soldiers who formed an honorary guard around the ceremony with American flags nearly fainted in the heat as others came to relieve their duties. Bottles and cups of water were distributed to the crowd, many who sat in metal bleachers as the temperature approached 90 degrees.
Vietnam veterans, despite the lack of respect they were shown, have been central to welcoming home troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, Baker said.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/fort-gordon-honors-vietnam-vets-with-welcome-home-ceremony-1.353497
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Did any of you read the article in stars and stripes in regards to a VA study shows parasites from Vietnam may be killing Veterans that served there.
I suggest anyone that served in country there read this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parasite-from-vietnam-may-be-killing-vets/
Peace!
I suggest anyone that served in country there read this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parasite-from-vietnam-may-be-killing-vets/
Peace!
Slow-killing parasite from Vietnam may be killing veterans, VA study says
Test results show some men may have been infected while fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia
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