Veterans

[mac]

Was reflecting on Veterans Day and how it’s changed. Today most all give universal respect to our vets. This is a good thing. When I got out of the Marines almost everyone called us baby killers. No one liked the war, much less the people who fought in it. Baby killers. Got over it though.

 

[jack954]

truely unfortunate mac!!! i thought about you guys when i came back from desert storm and the streets were lined up with people handing us coronas through the bus windows

 

[Dan kamsickas]

I remember the 4th of July parade the summer after Desert Storm. President Bush was actually in attendance here in Grand Rapids. It was a cool event but what will always stick with me is a group of Vietnam Vets marching in the parade and they got the loudest cheers of anyone. My mother bawled her eyes out. Her closest cousin was KIA 7 days after I was born. If you wanted to get her blood boiling just mention all the "peace protestors" who spit at her other cousin when he went to claim his brother's body.

 

[mac]

Was a different time. Unfortunately most of the protesters got their info from social media. BTW, nobody ever spit on me.