Honoring the Troops

The tragic Vietnam war sparked a decade of protests. The flower children stuck the stems down the barrels of National Guard rifles and chanted “Make peace not war”, but then cme the student killings at Kent State and riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Our troops, for the most part unwilling and drafted, saw 58,000 of their fellow Americans die in that war, yet when they came home from that hell, they were greeted at airports with animosity and contempt by the peaceniks, as if it was the fault of the young who had been sent to war by the old. It was disgraceful. How did we get that so wrong?

This time we got it right. Americans have been unfailing in support of the troops themselves, but the government — as it always does after wars — has again failed our troops, this time by the depraved conduct of the Veterans Administration.

We the people need continually to remember the tens of thousands who have come home damaged and maimed with their lives ever after affected by these wars. True support of the troops means donate, now and every year, to the organizations who are helping the vets and their families. Here’s a favorite of ours: .

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