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Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and a special day for me. I do not know why my name is not on the Wall in DC along with the other 58,318 names. I thank God I was spared to raise my family. Make no mistake; I do not diminish the sacrifice of any other veteran KIA in any other conflict. However, I am a Vietnam veteran.
Only by the grace of God am I here writing to you. Only by the grace of God am I grilling some brats and hoisting a beer or two to my fallen brethren. I ask you to have a brat or a whatever, and hoist a beer (or whatever), in honor of the 53,310 brothers and the eight sisters (all nurses) who died in Vietnam. None of them took a knee all, of them served their country.
The height of the war was in 1968, during the Tet offensive, I was there …
So while we are all out having a great time, please think of all the people who died so we can enjoy this day.