I am in my mid sixties Brig, and I was there when my friends who graduated from H.S. and then college went to Vietnam, I saw the body's come home, I saw the mindless body’s walk off the planes and then were left to their own devices because there was no adequate mental health or addiction care for them. They left for that war thinking they were fighting the good fight, only to come home feeling confused and lost as to why so many friends didn’t come home, and they did. I know Brig the results of the war, I just cannot walk in your shoes and say I know what that war was like to have lived it. My heart breaks every time I hear someone tell a new vet…’thank you for their service’….many of the men and women who came home from Vietnam were spit on, called baby killers and ignored. The streets of homeless vets and mentally ill, and addicts has now joined ranks with family’s devastated by health care costs, costs of living, and jobs that don’t pay enough to support what used to be a middle class family. People living in tents and motor homes in church parking lots in city’s with vacant buildings. I'm sorry to say that things are getting worse, not better.
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