stryg8r
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For the Vietnam Vets (FJRobert and others) ...
All I can say is it's about damn time! Thanks to all the Vietnam vets and others who've sacrificed and served in the military, allowing us the many freedoms so many take for granted.
Derek
From the Duluth News Tribune
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/
Pawlenty designates March 29 to honor Minnesota Vietnam veterans
Associated Press
Published Friday, March 28, 2008
ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s Vietnam War veterans are getting a long-awaited “Welcome home” from their state government.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a bill Thursday designating March 29 as Vietnam Veterans Day in the state. His office said Minnesota follows Tennessee as the only states to carve out a special day for veterans of that war.
At a signing ceremony, Pawlenty told a crowd of veterans and their families that it was “shameful” soldiers from that conflict didn’t get a warmer reception upon returning from war.
“We are sorry our state and our nation did not properly thank you at the time. What we can do now is to try to do all we can to make amends for that,” Pawlenty said. “We hope this bill is one step and one gesture in that regard.”
He said the Vietnam Veterans Day — the first of which falls Saturday — will put the focus on the sacrifices of those veterans. The date was chosen because the last U.S. ground troops left the Asian country on March 29, 1973.
Because of the short window between the bill’s passage and the first day, the state didn’t organize any official event to mark it. But some VFW posts are holding events.
All I can say is it's about damn time! Thanks to all the Vietnam vets and others who've sacrificed and served in the military, allowing us the many freedoms so many take for granted.
Derek
From the Duluth News Tribune
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/
Pawlenty designates March 29 to honor Minnesota Vietnam veterans
Associated Press
Published Friday, March 28, 2008
ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s Vietnam War veterans are getting a long-awaited “Welcome home” from their state government.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a bill Thursday designating March 29 as Vietnam Veterans Day in the state. His office said Minnesota follows Tennessee as the only states to carve out a special day for veterans of that war.
At a signing ceremony, Pawlenty told a crowd of veterans and their families that it was “shameful” soldiers from that conflict didn’t get a warmer reception upon returning from war.
“We are sorry our state and our nation did not properly thank you at the time. What we can do now is to try to do all we can to make amends for that,” Pawlenty said. “We hope this bill is one step and one gesture in that regard.”
He said the Vietnam Veterans Day — the first of which falls Saturday — will put the focus on the sacrifices of those veterans. The date was chosen because the last U.S. ground troops left the Asian country on March 29, 1973.
Because of the short window between the bill’s passage and the first day, the state didn’t organize any official event to mark it. But some VFW posts are holding events.
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