"WAR IS HELL" Vietnam Veteran Reflects on his Service 

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I was spit on by teenage girls when I landed in San Francisco in my USMC uniform. A New Mexican rancher bought me a steak dinner and a beer at a stopover.

Welcome home! Thank you for your service!

This gentleman is a hero. I’m sorry for the way you were treated sir. Thank you for your service.

This is coming from a war hero who was treated like trash when he came home from the Vietnam War and nobody cared about them. Thank You every soldier who fought for our country

Men like him were my leaders when I was in the Army. I respect the hell out of all of them.

I'm so thankful I never disrespected any of them. Thank you for your sacrifice colonel.

Welcome home colonel, From a Marine.

Thank u for your service,and thank u for keeping our freedom safe

Yes sir, Thank you for your service!

I was a young teenager when Vietnam was blowing up ..i lived in the bay area cali. As a kid i was APPALLED at places like Berkeley behaved. Vietnam vets have a special place in me heart. No one disses anything with these men! They stood tall in hell and they are my heroes.❤

Welcome home sir. Thank you for your service

RIP Pfc Leo Swan USMC Brighton MA KIA 1968

Thank you for your service to our country! May God bless you always.

Thank you for your service! This is from the daughter of a man who served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. So thank you! You are a hero!

Thank you for your service

Thank you for your service sir

WELCOME HOME BROTHER!

Thank YOU, sir. Honour, respect and love is owed to you in the thousands

Welcome home thank you for your service ❤❤❤

It's the words of Vietnam Veterans that teach us younger generations not to misplace our hate for politicians on to the soldiers.

We respect the military we have today because of their sacrifices yesterday. Thank you. All of you.

Nothing but gratitude, Colonel! All vets deserve recognition for fighting for our country! Welcome home!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It took Desert Storm to bring back the pride of serving to the Viet Nam veterans. Thank you sir! In fact, just tonight, I was in a store and the Viet Nam veteran was in the checkout ahead of me. I thank him from one combat vet to another that I was glad he made it home and for his service.

Love, honor, respect, and gratitude to you, to all who have served and those who are serving.

Exactly, i think most of us learned from the treatment of our military during the Vietnam war. Thank you for your service. 🇺🇸

Welcome home Colonel Thank You for your sacrifice!!

Thank you for your service and sacrifice sir, God bless your soul

Your so right. We had seemed like hundreds of USO people there when we got off the plane a long line of handshakes hugs n welcomes. It was so nice of those people. Many were Vietnam veterans. Thank you.

Well said, SIR.

Thank you for your service and sacrifice! Mad respect to you!

I cannot THANK YOU enough for your service and sacrifices!!! God bless you 🙏🏻💖🙏🏻💖🙏🏻

Sir thank you for your service, I didn’t serve but my Mom was a pharmacist in the navy Great Lakes ,and my Dad was Army infantry Rainbow Division . They went up the Flanks and protected the Flanks During WW2. You guys didn’t get the proper WELCOME HOME. That sucks I’m sorry.

Thank you for your Service Sir and God Bless You ♥️🙏🇺🇲❤️

Sir, you are my brother and I love you! Both of my brothers who were in Vietnam are gone now and I miss them dearly. You, and all of the brave men and women who served will always be my family.

You are appreciated, thank you for you’re service to our country, and welcome home

My mam!!! Thank you for your sacrifice and service to this great Nation. Welcome home!

Thank You Sir! For your service, courage and bravery! Especially bein brave returning home!

Welcome home sir 😊thank you for your service! God bless !

Thank you Vietnam vets are heroes.

WELCOME HOME! I grew up in a Navy family..second generation....I was stunned that there were no parades tributes ceremonies to welcome back the brave military personnel...It too Miya Ying Linn's stark and truly stunning designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial. I will never forget being at the dedication ceremony. THANK YOU MS. LINN for your tribute to those who gave their last full measure of devotion. Never Forget...

Welcome home to all Vietnam veterans! GOD BLESS & GODSPEED TO you all! Thank you for your service my BROTHERS IN ARMS!

I salute you and my family is grateful for your service

🫡🇺🇲 A very big and great full thanks for your Service Sir!👍.

Thank you so much for your service, sir!

Thank you for your service battle buddy you are not forgotten 💪🏽

Thank you for your service sir!

Thank you Sir for your service and welcome home

Thank you for your service. Welcome home.

Thank you for your service During Vietnam war God bless you all 🙏

My heart breaks for our Vietnam vets. I welcome you home, and I stand proud for you. It is time to make those men and women from the Vietnam war know that our nation stands for them.

Good evening from Mississippi!! Thank you, Sir, for your service to the United States of America and the American people!

Damn! I remember hearing about this. Thank you for your service sir. Myself, and I have taught my son, to always thank a Vet for their service. Doesn't matter which war they served.

Welcome home sir, thank you for your service!

This resonates. Thank you for your courage

Ex Flight Attendant here and I got goosebumps everytime I landed with our troops ,and you Vietnam Vets were there to welcome EVERY flight!!!Your determination to be sure that noone in uniform would EVER experience your pain. I was a little girl when you came home. I hope that you know that plenty of us were very happy to see you home. Some of my favorite pilots were Vietnam Vets. You tought us how to honor our vets by example

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE SIR

So true! As a gulf war vet the way we're we treated in airports or on the street by Vietnam vets was amazing!

Your So Brave from Way Up North Your a HERO

I remember those days, I just missed Vianam. The way GI's were treated when they returned from war was a Discrace! It still angers me to this day. I'm glad you made it back home safe, so many didn't. Thank you for your service to our great country. God bless you.

Thank you for your service. 🙏

Thank God for the service your a hero 🙏 🙌 👏 strongly believe 💙

Thank you for your service!!

Thank you for your service!

It was Terrible how they were treated, starting the moment they walked off the plane. I've heard stories that made me cry- along with the soldier telling his story.

Mistakes were made in the past, but thankfully we can fix or at least ease the pain. Thank you for your service Sir! 🇺🇸🫡 Thank you to all Viet Nam vets, and all military families everywhere. Colonel you and your men should stand proud and tall.

Absolutely true! I know one thing about it IM NEVER GONNA FORGET IT!

Respectfully, the VN vets were immensely impactful in creating that change. Welcome home to those VN vets who never heard it from at least one grateful civilian!!

Thank you for your service! 😘

Brother that’s the beauty of growing learning and evolving for the better you didn’t have that love and support from Americans I get it I never had a parade too but be blessed that your sacrifices didn’t go in vain bc think about how bad u felt n didn’t want another brother to go through it right you wanted to be loved n thanked me too but America has learned to love n support our troops once again including you! God has and will continue to bless and welcome home!🫡⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My brother came home from Vietnam and took a cab from the train station. He told the driver to let him off in the alley behind his childhood home. He was 18 years old. He passed away in 2005 at 58 years of age. I will always be so proud of him.

Thank you for your service bro You look fantastic for your age!

You are so right. The youth at that time was so anti-war as a lifestyle, they didn't think what you soldiers were going through over there. You risked your lives, fought opposition in tunnels and old women with weapons under their skirts. I commend you for what you had to do.❤

Thank you for your service and sacrifices for your country 🙏 I remember all that I was so angry 😢

my husband knew there would be no welcome home. He ditched uniform with whole seabag overboard. Then, I never answered questions or spoke about it again. HONOR DELAYED IS HONOR DENIED! Thank you's and welcome home had it's chance THEN, SO.STOW IT!

Blessings to you, Sir. My late husband served there also.

My dad was in Vietnam, I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm genuinely grateful for the country's gratitude having understood what my dad and his peers experienced.

That's a really good perspective. I hope he knows that so many of us feel badly about this. If it's not too late, thank you for your service and we are so glad you made it back home to us all.

I'm a Marine. I went to Iraq in 02. Infantry. Lost my right eye from an IED. The last time I remember crying was in 2007 when my son was born. I ain't gonna lie, I just bawled my eyes out! Thank you for your service sir!

I personally want to Thank you for your Service, I wish that every Person that reacted in a negative way to all of our Military People coming home, learned just how very wrong they were, as well, learned they were blaming the wrong people. GOD bless you.

Thank YOU sir for OUR service.

You Sir are an American Treasure. Thank you for all you have done for our country.

None of my family served in Vietnam, but as a young teenager I the early 70’s, I remember the pride I felt every time I met a war veteran and I was very fortunate to have met many from WWI to present day. It’s one of the reasons I served as well.

This is why I thank every veteran, especially those who are older, for their service and sacrifice. I am old enough to remember how soldiers returning from Vietnam (including my brother) were treated. Never again!

When I was a little girl in the 70s and I saw somebody come home from Vietnam, I thanked them for going over and being there for us. I told them I don’t know what everything was about, but I appreciated them for taking time to be good to our country. I was told by at least two people that I was the first one to ever say anything like that to them. I told them that’s a rotten. Shame that people treated them so harshly. So there were a few veterans that were thanked by me at that time. My parents did the same thing to the veterans of Vietnam as well. We welcomed them home too.

My father was a NCO during the Vietnam war but he was stationed in Turkey. The first time he was acknowledged was when my daughter was in first grade 2012 and the grammar school invited parents/grandparents for Veterans day. Why? The Principal was a Marine Vet and felt that ALL vets should be acknowledged. My father was quite touched and I was thrilled for him.

I spent 27 months in V.N. and when I came home no-one, including my family, wanted any information I might have about where I had spent the last two years of my life. It was if I walked out the door, then immediately re-entered. As for the public, their general attitude, which I describe as pathetic and ill informed at best, causes me to think of them in anger and hurt still today. When this same public wanted us to march in parades twenty, thirty years later my thoughts were reinforced as to how much pain I have retained.

Sir I'm so sorry for how you were treated when you came home you did not deserve that thank you for your service to our country God bless you and the United States of America

Thank you for your service Lieutenant Colonel George Forrest! The reception that Vietnam Veterans received after returning home was shameful. I say to you Sir, 'Welcone Home'! God Bless. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️

I was never in the service, but I got your back. Thank you!

Thank you for your service and welcome home 🇺🇲

Thank you, sir, for being honest and yet not bitter. I guess a nation has to mature just as we as individuals have to mature. We're called African-Americans now - and I remember when, prior the high school, I finally accepted being called, "Black" - and thought that was the end of it. But it wasn't. It is a shame that Vietnam veterans returned to the contempt they received: "Baby Killers!" I was too young to serve at that time. I knew you guys went through something I could only imagine. I went to school with Vets who had a different vocabulary: "Bustin' caps," and, "Up in the war." I've envied you guys who did experience that hell - mindful that many came back in body bags and there was no guarantee I would have escaped that fate. Now, people realize that service persons - warriors of all branches - do what the country asks them to do. Were we guilty of atrocities? I'm sure some were - yet I believe we as a people have more regard for individual life than many others - especially other empires ( and we are an empire). I've watched several shorts featuring Colonel Forrest and I appreciate your including him and I appreciate his thoughtful comments. Again, I hear no bitterness in the man and am glad he survived to see this era - imperfect as it is.

Thank you for your service to our country 🇺🇸.

Thank you for your service my friend you did deserve better than that

I'm so very sorry that that happened to you all. It should not have been that way. What you guys did... when our nation needed you, you all were there to answer the call. I appreciate & thank all of you for the many sacrifices you all made for our country. I know that thanks is long overdue & I'm sorry for that.

War isn’t something to celebrate, but these men sacrificed a part of their humanity, and many lost their lives. That should be respected

So sorry for the way you were treated for your service to this country

thank you heroes for your service 🙏

This one fellow whom I know is like the nicest person you could meet. He had just gotten back from vietnam and was in an elevator in his military uniform. Some hippie dippie spat on him in the elevator and no one else was in there. The vet clocked the hippie so hard it knocked him out cold. The doors opened and the guy was laying there motionless and the vet walked out and left him there. Good for him! I’d have done the same.

Thank you for serving sir ❤