Veterans Affairs and Issues

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I believe you can contact the US Census Bureau or the National Archives for that information.

Veteran's deploy to other countries to help stabilize their governments, overthrow military coup's, restore their freedoms, protect the innocent, attempt to stop genocide, etc. etc. etc.

When any unit deploys to another country they automatically infuse American money into that countries economy (in most countries I was deployed to our money was worth significantly more than theirs). We also help people in the country personally. I remember having the local children beg to shine our boots so they could make a quarter. Sometimes I'd have my boots shined 5x in one day and give each child a dollar. We often leave things behind that the locals don't have: i.e. I have left warm clothing, blankets, electronics, small toys I brought for the children, etc. One time I fed the children chocolate and was so dumbfounded that never in their life had they ever tried it! (I got in trouble with the mom's because the next day they had some shall we say "tummy issues") however, the mom's were still grateful because that was an experience they could never give their children. Every once in awhile we "adopt" in a sense a child from the country where we stayed sending them a few dollars every month, etc. I remember one mother trying to convince me (actually begging me) to take this pair of air jordan nike shoes home with me because our unit had mailed or sent over with the next group of soldiers shoes for all of her children and the shoes were worth what she would make in wages for two years.

Veterans sacrifice to help not just those in this country but those in other countries as well. We truly do fall in love with the children that we meet and live alongside and do as much as we can to help them or spoil them when available. I have worked in countries providing combat air support to prevent drug traffickers from transporting drugs through their airspace to fighting to ensure that that country obtained a freedom those of us in the USA take for granted.

If any one battle of the war can be called a "turning point", it would have to be Antietam (or Sharpsburg to the Southern perspective). After initial Union victories and advances in the spring of 1862, the Confederacy had reversed the momentum and successfully invaded Kentucky and Maryland. Robert E. Lee's Army of the Northern Virginia commanded the most media attention as it fought nearest the largest Eastern population centers and national capitals of the adversaries. This Confederate army had stopped McClellan's Peninsula invasion, shattered Pope's army at the Second Battle of Bull Run, and continued across the Potomac River to invade Maryland, a slave state that had some with secessionist sympathies, but had remained in the Union. Lee's army was on a roll, but was checked at Antietam, a one-day battle that remains the single bloodiest day in the history of the United States. While it was a tactical draw, it was a strategic defeat for the Lee and the South as the Confederate army had to retreat into Virginia. The following year Lee had another opportunity to invade the North that culminated in the battle of Gettysburg and another strategic (and tactical) loss. Many consider this to be the turning point in the war, but by this time the Confederacy had lost control of the Mississippi River Valley, and had no answers for the Northern efforts in what was called the "West". Even if Lee had not met with defeat at Gettysburg, it is doubtful that, with President Lincoln's unfailing determination to keep the Union together, that anything he could have done would have reversed the critical effort in the West.

The VA website just shows it as Veterans Day. There is no apostrophe used. The word "Veteran" is used in its plural form, not in any possessive form.

The Geneva convention is designed to help injured or sick troops that are fighting a war. ___ _____ _____ I also read somewhere that they also contibute with peace talks and/or negotiations. but I'm not 100%b sure on this.

Send them a copy of your discharge document and they'll tell you how much their membership is. The Legion might be the most expensive of the vet groups. The VFW is the most popular because it is the ONLY vet organizatoin with the word "war" in it's title. And people covet the title of "war vet."

The VFW is America's oldest vet group founded originally by Spanish-American War veterans in 1899. The AL was started by WWI vets in 1919. The AMVETs were started by WWII vets in 1944. The VVA was started by Viet Vets in about 1979.

But the VVA was "sort of" special...they were founded because no other US vet group would allow them in...without alot of red tape. Consequently, their motto is "We'll never turn our back on another veteran" (like what happened to them).

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Depends upon who you are talking to. The VA, an Employer, a Vietnam veteran, etc. The DOD "may" have recently (based upon a legal action) standardized the Viet veteran status to commence in 1955 when Eisenhower first US troops to Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, it has been seen on some papers where the VA started the date in 1964 or 1965 (no doubt based on the Tonkin Gulf Incident (a naval battle on 02 August 1964/Tonkin Ghosts on 04 August 1964) because those dates match.

The best way is to look at the Viet Vets Memorial Wall website. The first man died in Vietnam on or about 1956 or so, the last in 1975. Which no doubt laid some credibility to that alleged legal action with the DOD.

Many of the young soldiers that came back home came back with not only broken bodies, but broken minds and were met with ridicule; people spitting at them for being 'baby killers'; not being able to find work; their own government turned their backs on them and many never got the medical or psychological care they deserved. There are many Vietnam Vets to this day that suffer from nightmares, night sweats and a myriad of other maladies. They fought for their country and were considered scum! The U.S. government wasn't even going to honor them until the Black Wall was put up with the names of the dead soldiers (this is all some other Vietnam Vets had and families had left of their buddies, husbands, sons, grandchildren. Just to feel their names!) Then there was some of society (and the government) that felt Black Americans didn't deserve to have their names etched on the Black Wall, but thankfully there were enough people who had their heads out from under their rocks that realized no matter what color your skin is if you give up your life for your country you deserve the Royal Treatment in spades!!!! The Vietnam War was a grave and embarrassing mistake for the U.S. Government and like many other things they just wanted to cover it up, forget it as if it never happened. Unlike WWI and WWII or even the Civil War it was the first time in American History that young American Soldiers were not respected or honored in the ways they should have been. Little was taught in the schools about the history of the Vietnam War, but thankfully that is changing. America was nin Vietnam as a police action. American opinion was against this action. America was not at war with Vietnam which leads to the biggest reason that public opinion was against this action, American soldiers did NOT fight for their country in this action. Public opposition to Vietnam was brought about by young and old not wanting to stick their noses in someone else's business. This sticky nosing by the U.S. Government caused the deaths of many who did not believe USA should even be there. That is the reason that not much is taught about the "Vietnam war" BECAUSE AMERICA WAS NOT AT WAR.

Speaking as a Viet Nam Veteran, my short answer would be because we were, as a group both victimized and demonized by the press and the public. It quickly became a case of the only people we could trust were those who had been there. Specifics: my kids were osterized rediculed and physically assualted at school because I was in Viet Nam. My wife was refused credit specifically because I was on a current tour "in country." She was told it was because I was a very low survival risk. Many marriages ended with the husband in country because the wife and maybe children couldn't take the pressure. Upon my return to the U.S. I was told to change into civilian clothes before exiting the plane. This did nothing of course because the crowd waiting for us in the terminal had been informed that we were all returning from Viet Nam. The press coverage of Viet Nam was worse than biased. They reported every instance where the troops raided a Viet Cong village, which happened about once every month or two. Sometimes if it didn't happen soon enough, they re-ran film clips from a past raid and reported it as a current raid. Not once did I see an account of the Viet Cong rocketing an orphenage, hospital, or church. Events that happened two or three times a week. In contrast, draft evaders were, and still are, idolized as heros. This osterization became even more pronounced after the draft ended. Once you left the military, having served there was a negative factor at job interviews. It took me almost six months to get an entry level job in a field where I had held officer rank. Then contrast that with the treatment of today's returning combat troops. The long and short of it is, I may like you, or even love you, but I've been back-stabed too often to trust you. I reserve my trust to those who served there, and for those families that remained faithful during that service.

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The difference's was that world opinion thoughts were the Korean war was somewhat a political war whereas world war 2 vets were viewed as very necessary and important to the global political structure.

Allegedly clapping her hands in glee as North Viet Gunners shot down an attacking US jet over North Vietnam definitely would be cruel to US servicemen. However, as bad as memories are, Jane Fonda was definitely photographed (which made front page news) sitting upon a North Vietnamese Anti-Aircraft gun seat (AAA=Anti-Aircraft Artillery). Many people in America wanted Jane Fonda arrested for high treason/aiding and abetting the enemy (a capital offense) but since Vietnam, like the US Civil War, was an undeclared war; there was no treason, therefore she was not arrested.

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Veterans Day in the US (known as Remembrance Day in the UK and Commonwealth countries and as Armistice Day in other countries) is held on the 11th of November.

There is a (usually two minute) silence held at 11am (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month) which in 1918 marked the formal ending of World War 1.

The silence is held as a sign of respect for the approx. 20 million people who died in that war and those who lost their lives in conflicts since then.

In the UK it is traditional to read the fourth stanza of For The Fallen (1914) by Laurence Binyon:

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

The final line is commonly repeated in response by those listening as an affirmation of their duty of remembrance.

There are many ways in which you can thank a veteran. Personally thank them for their service, buy them a meal, or make a donation to a military foundation or charity.

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President Eisenhower sent US advisers to Vietnam in 1955. President Kennedy sent US Special Forces (Green Beret) to Vietnam in 1961. President Johnson sent US regular forces to Vietnam in 1965.

In the US, it is a Federal holiday, so most government offices are closed, and banks and post offices, also many stores. The day is filled with veteran related activities, such as parades, ceremonies, air shows, decorating/visiting veteran graves, a national veterans day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery where the President lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. All this to remember the sacrifice of all who call themselves veterans

Anyone who is either on Active Duty, Reserves, or is a former service member is considered a military Veteran.

However, recognition and status is based on the type of discharge - dishonorable or bad conduct discharges strip you of all Veteran's rights.

Taking the date President Woodrow Wilson declared as Armistice Day as a national holiday in 1919, then the USA has celebrated it

(now called Veteran's Day) for 94 years.

1. North Vietnam readily admits to the naval engagement between their 135th Torpedo Squadron and the Destroyer USS Maddox on 02 August 1964.

2. North Vietnam denies fighting the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on 04 August 1964.

As a matter of "trivia" fact: Those actual 3 NVN torpedo boats that attacked Maddox on 02 August 1964 (in which one was claimed sunk) & and were allegedly possibly used again on the 4th of August 1964 (Boats T-333, T-336, and T-339) were indeed actually sunk on or about 1/2 July 1966 by US jets from the carriers USS Constellation & Hancock.

Contact the DOD (Department of Defense) and/or the branch of service concerned, as well as the VA. In case one agency "passes the buck" from one to another.

There is no record of any member of any service with the last name "Holloway" on the official U.S. Government POW/MIA lists for Vietnam, Korea, or the Cold War.

Impersonating a POW is a serious offense, as is impersonating any veteran, especially a decorated one.