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Two and one half million Americans fought in Vietnam. And 58,000 Americans died there.
The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought. And there is no reckoning the
cost. The toll in suffering, sorrow, in rancorous national turmoil can never be tabulated. No one wants ever to see America
so divided again. And for many of the more than two million American veterans of the war, the wounds of Vietnam will never
heal.
You were my Senior Drill Instructor.
I feared you and respected you.
I would have followed you to hell!
But
I went first, as you said I would, and you followed later.
A Soldier
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REAGAN, August 1980
Well, it's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. Let us tell those who fought in that war that
we will never again ask young men to fight and possibly die in a war our government is afraid to let them win.
In two years, the Johnson Administration's troop build-up dispatched 1.5 million Americans to Vietnam to fight a war
they found baffling, tedious, exciting, deadly and unforgettable
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Note from Doris: While searching for info for this web site. I came upon The Wall site. I spent alot of time on that
site more than any site I have ever been on. If you have never really looked at what happen in Vietnam to the Veterans
, the POW's, the Soldiers who give Their life for you..Then I ask you to read the link of The Virtual Wall..It brought tears
to see so many young men my age and younger that died in Vietnam..Even all the wars we have had . This brought me closer to
reality of war than anywhere else that I have seen..Thank you Veternas Men & Women that gave up your family's to fight
in a war that so many people protested ..YOU ARE A HERO.
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