TheBanyanTree: Veterans Day

[Monique Colver]

Happy Veterans Day to us Russ. I was in after you and missed wars
altogether, though we did like to pretend, just in case something should pop
up.

Monique

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Russ Doden <russ.doden at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is Veterans Day today.  As a veteran of the Viet-Nam era, I always have
> mixed feelings on this day.  Memories of how the vets were treated then -
> which wasn't too great in many ways.  I have some memories that just won't
> go away.  Surprisingly not of being overseas, but of the response to people
> on the streets here "at home" in the USA.  The funny thing is, I was a
> protestser in my own way, even though I was in the Navy.  A little sand in
> the gears as it were I guess.
> No matter what I think of the governments actions (and I'm usually not in
> agreement with them it seems) I support our troops and feel they deserve
> respect and recognition - and when they come home they deserve all the help
> they can get to readjust to a life they no longer can ever truly return to.
> Their way of seeing the world, and what it means to be in the military
> changes them forever.  I've known a lot of people that though they came
> back, they never truly came all the way back.  I hope that some day their
> services will no longer be needed, but that cannot be as there will always
> be people hungry for power and hungery for control - at any cost.
>
> Russ
> U.S. Navy 1966-1970
>



-- 
Monique Colver