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Personal Experience: Veterans Of The Vietnam War

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My class and I were very lucky to have met some veterans of the Vietnam War. It was very eye-opening to learn about their personal experiences. Most of the stories I heard about the Vietnam War is from secondary documents. The most heartbreaking thing that the veterans told us was that most of the veterans had never been welcomed home formally. Since many people believed that the it was unfair to fight the war, the soldiers suffered the backlash from the people about the soldiers and the army. One of the veterans also commented that the first thing that happened to him as soon as he landed was that a young lady spit in his face and made vulgar comments toward his actions in Vietnam. I think this was very disrespectful because all veterans deserve
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