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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 859229" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>You are part of an elite group known as "Combat Vets". Never forget where you came from. I recommend you joining the VFW. Your going to be welcomed with open arms.</p><p> </p><p>I came home thru Ft Lewis, and ended up having to spend two extra days there because of some B.S. rule that you had to have dress greens on to travel. I had a 44" chest and a 29" waist. They had nothing that came close to fitting me (as if I cared). So I ended up with a set of tailor made greens to wear once! Remember going thru a formation, and they guy told me to get a hair cut. I told him to cut my hair himself (I'd had three haircuts in the last seven days!). They guy that told me to get a hair cut had nothing but the National defense Ribbon, and I had zero respect for his ***. But that was also an omen that I failed to pick up on. I know now what my first platoon sargent told me to expect.</p><p> </p><p>When I got on the airplane out of Seattle (red eye), no one would set next to me. Fine with me, as I pretty much had the whole side to myself. Then an old man asked if he could set next to me? I welcomed him. Landing at OHara in Chicago, I had to go from one end to the other. All kinds of baggage handlers and carts, but I wasn't good enough to use one. The said my flight was booked up (even though I had a ticket). So I ended up hauling everything about half way back. Got a flight about eight hours later to Indy. I should have just hopped on a bus as it was a three hour drive. Folks were cold when I got back home, and I divorced most of my friends while picking up new ones. A year or so later the VFW and Legion told us we were not welcome there! Seems the WWII guys didn't think much of us, even though the color of our blood was the same as theirs. Ten years later they were begging us to join them, and I sorta ignored them. Ten years ago a couple Marines, and some Army guys approached me about joining. One said he'd pay my first years dues if I joined. So I got my DD-214 together and filled out an application fully expecting the usual treatment. Two weeks later I got an I.D. card in the mail, but never entered the local post. When it came time to renew my membership I mulled around about it, but my girl friend drug me over there. I went inside and told them what I wanted to do, and I was welcomed to a table of Vietnam vets. Asked who and where I came from, and a couple guys questioned me as I look very young for my age (I don't blame them). I told them I was right out of I-Corps, and then the conversation just took off. Turned out that one of the guys at the table and I shared the same exact A.O., and we had done a few OP's together. Later a Marine and I found we'd chewed the same turf many times over. I'm now the Post Surgeon, and hope to be Junior Vice next month. Finally starting my trip thru the chairs after two stints at the Surgeon position. But on the otherhand, I'm really not wanting to leave that position this very minute. I have a couple projects going on that will need someone to follow thru on them. </p><p> </p><p>Looking back at my 14 months and three weeks in the game, I will never forgive this country for what they did to us. And I've openly told them about how I feel about it. Being there was better than being at home for the next twenty odd years. At least you knew who your enemies were, and who your friends are. The WWII vets were the problem, and they should have paved the way for the Korean War Vets, and they snubbed them. Then they did the samething with the Vietnam folks. In 1990 we vowed that they were not going to get by doing this again, and we kinda stepped to the front. Now those guys are doing the same for your group (we're there, but there's only a third of us left)</p><p> </p><p>Welcome Home Brother</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 859229, member: 25383"] You are part of an elite group known as "Combat Vets". Never forget where you came from. I recommend you joining the VFW. Your going to be welcomed with open arms. I came home thru Ft Lewis, and ended up having to spend two extra days there because of some B.S. rule that you had to have dress greens on to travel. I had a 44" chest and a 29" waist. They had nothing that came close to fitting me (as if I cared). So I ended up with a set of tailor made greens to wear once! Remember going thru a formation, and they guy told me to get a hair cut. I told him to cut my hair himself (I'd had three haircuts in the last seven days!). They guy that told me to get a hair cut had nothing but the National defense Ribbon, and I had zero respect for his ***. But that was also an omen that I failed to pick up on. I know now what my first platoon sargent told me to expect. When I got on the airplane out of Seattle (red eye), no one would set next to me. Fine with me, as I pretty much had the whole side to myself. Then an old man asked if he could set next to me? I welcomed him. Landing at OHara in Chicago, I had to go from one end to the other. All kinds of baggage handlers and carts, but I wasn't good enough to use one. The said my flight was booked up (even though I had a ticket). So I ended up hauling everything about half way back. Got a flight about eight hours later to Indy. I should have just hopped on a bus as it was a three hour drive. Folks were cold when I got back home, and I divorced most of my friends while picking up new ones. A year or so later the VFW and Legion told us we were not welcome there! Seems the WWII guys didn't think much of us, even though the color of our blood was the same as theirs. Ten years later they were begging us to join them, and I sorta ignored them. Ten years ago a couple Marines, and some Army guys approached me about joining. One said he'd pay my first years dues if I joined. So I got my DD-214 together and filled out an application fully expecting the usual treatment. Two weeks later I got an I.D. card in the mail, but never entered the local post. When it came time to renew my membership I mulled around about it, but my girl friend drug me over there. I went inside and told them what I wanted to do, and I was welcomed to a table of Vietnam vets. Asked who and where I came from, and a couple guys questioned me as I look very young for my age (I don't blame them). I told them I was right out of I-Corps, and then the conversation just took off. Turned out that one of the guys at the table and I shared the same exact A.O., and we had done a few OP's together. Later a Marine and I found we'd chewed the same turf many times over. I'm now the Post Surgeon, and hope to be Junior Vice next month. Finally starting my trip thru the chairs after two stints at the Surgeon position. But on the otherhand, I'm really not wanting to leave that position this very minute. I have a couple projects going on that will need someone to follow thru on them. Looking back at my 14 months and three weeks in the game, I will never forgive this country for what they did to us. And I've openly told them about how I feel about it. Being there was better than being at home for the next twenty odd years. At least you knew who your enemies were, and who your friends are. The WWII vets were the problem, and they should have paved the way for the Korean War Vets, and they snubbed them. Then they did the samething with the Vietnam folks. In 1990 we vowed that they were not going to get by doing this again, and we kinda stepped to the front. Now those guys are doing the same for your group (we're there, but there's only a third of us left) Welcome Home Brother gary [/QUOTE]
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