Tallmanok2's Blog

To my Vietnam veteran brothers and sisters, WELCOME HOME!

http://www.ibiblio.org/phha/Tennessee.html

My Dads Service: Navy 1943-1947 ( above link )

My Cousins & Friends Service: VIETNAM

Never forget the MIA'S.

THANK YOU TO ALL.


Your off base Jax. This is a Tribute, Honor & Thank You blog to our Vets. It should stay as such. Leave the political views for another.

You weren't wrong Jax. We VETERANS need the help and support of other veterans of this country, and we need to offer all our undying support and help for the new regime of VETS who will find themselves handicapped by NOBAMA'S rule of thumb.

To all my Vietnam bro's, GOD SPEED and LOVE.

To LONGSNOT who didn't serve, don't tell a VET not to care about the welfare of other VETS!!!

Great blog tall. That is the greatest sacrifice someone can make. I only wish those still wearing the uniform were recognized in real, tangible ways, not just mere recognition once a year. Given this is the greatest sacrifice, why not make sure that those who come home maimed are taken care of, medically and financially. Not just officers who get pensions, either. Soldiers need to be paid well, during service and after. Just my thoughts.

I've thought about this post through the night and I need to revise a comment. When I made my comment about leaving Iraq before victory I WAS honoring our Vets, my brothers and sisters. I'll explain as briefly as I can because I still don't talk about much.

I was experienced war from both sides. My father was a Lt. Commander on a destroyer at Normandy and later in the war lost his leg in battle. When Vietnam came my older brother went conscientious objector. He said it was for moral reasons, I think he was scared because of my father's injuries. I joined because I was going to be drafted anyway and wouldn't run. I was very proud of my father and maybe secretly wanted him to be proud of me. Also I was a young, invincible, smartass.

Now what I meant by seeing war from both sides is to this day my brother and I have no relationship because of our views on war. He reminds me of a Longshot.

When I came home I was so disillusioned by my country and the fact that no one cared about what I'd done and what I'd seen that I felt like a criminal. I didn't actually come home to live until 1979 and that still wasn't in Detroit or anywhere near my brother. That period of my life gives me the express right to not want our Iraq Vets to have to come home and yet not come home. Veterans Day may not have been the correct forum but dammit I have a right to wish the best for our Vets and pray they don't have to walk the road I did.

I tried to enlist in the Navy at the Downtown Detroit AFEES building; They told me because of my eyesight (15-5), I wasn't eligible. I'm fairly certain the Army would have given me a pair of glasses! LOL. Very respectful post & forum, Tall.

Tall

good post but you kow you put the first photos up of great americans who were in their own way protesting the cutting of funds by the democrat white flag bunch.
its as if you were spitting on then then laying praise on them at the same time!

Great post and comments. I love the bickering. :D

Great post Tall. God Bless our vets, God Bless America.

Tall, I think registration still was in place even during the time of the draft lottery. I went late to register because I thought registration ended when the draft lottery started. They chastised me, but accepted my registration anyway.