Just read through the posts. I was drafted in Dec. 67, didn't object, just went along with the program, did extend my time for some different training. I got to see parts of Germany, Greece, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia plus several bases in different states, most were places I never would have seen otherwise. When I came back from Vietnam after 18 months and was discharged I didn't feel at home, was ready to go back, took a long time to adjust. I don't remember people thanking us but I didn't care either way, just did what I was told at the time. Found the American Legion where I grew up was just a bar, much like other clubs. My first "welcome home" came from another Vietnam Vet who is my neighbor when I moved here 11 years ago. We have a Disabled American Veteran chapter near here, I have met many of them, sadly some of them use it as a way to keep increasing their disability rating to get a bigger check. One of them is a woman who enlisted in the mid seventies, never left the states, claimed PTSD and has been working that until she bragged to me a while ago that she is now 100% and will be paid $49,000. a year and offered to help me do the same, no thanks. I figure that we signed up, voluntarily or not, and should receive what we were promised, and gaming the system for profit shouldn't be tolerated. I have noticed a lack of respect at the VA, perhaps if they were required to serve they might treat us better. I read that the VA is demanding that the California National Guard soldiers that were sent into harms way a decade ago must repay the money that was paid them because some people in charge were not supposed to offer it. If I were still a young person looking at service to this country with the record of mistreatment to veterans I would not join.
Free meals, discounts, other offered benefits are nice, thanks to all that offer them but I haven't gone out of my way to collect.
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