For All Who Served ~ Welcome Home Vietnam Veteran
When: March 30, 2013
Time: 2:00pm
Where: National Guard AASF hanger
Regional Drive, Concord, NH
Come to be recognized for your service
Come to recognized our Vietnam veterans and their families
Whether you are a veteran or never served in the military, please come to Thank and Welcome Home our Vietnam veterans!
Saturday, March 23, 2013
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Below is a message from Maj. General William Reddel regarding the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans ceremony on Saturday 3-30-13. Thanks to Jim C. for passing this along!!
This Saturday, March 30 at 2 p.m., the State of New Hampshire is officially recognizing the service of its Vietnam veterans with a Welcome Home Ceremony at the Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) on Regional Drive in Concord. A year ago, on the war's 50th Anniversary, our Legislature passed a law marking March 30 as the day to honor Vietnam Veterans.
Why?
The men and women who served in Vietnam were never properly thanked. They never received a homecoming. There were no ceremonies or parades. There were no banners hanging from highway overpasses. No police escorts. They were shunned from the moment they touched down on American soil. Insteadof being embraced at terminals across the country, many of our warriors slipped into a bathroom to change out of their uniform. As a nation, we treated them as outcasts.
Now in their 60s and 70s, those same veterans swore that the next
generation of war heroes coming home would receive the gratitude they deserved, from Desert Storm to Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn. Never again, would our nation treat its returning veterans so badly. Well, they delivered on their promise.
Now it's our turn to show them the same respect and gratitude they have so justifiably earned. Saturday's ceremony is an opportunity for all of us to say "Thank You. Job well done." As citizen-soldiers and airmen, it's an opportunity for us to "return the favor." It is an opportunity for us to pay a debt that is 40 years overdue, and an essential step toward healing a national wound.
I strongly encourage you to consider the significance of what your
attendance will mean to our Vietnam Veterans. For if not us, then who. If not now, then when. Please join me, Governor Hassan, and our congressional delegation, in welcoming home our Vietnam Veterans.
/s/
William N. Reddel III
Major General, NH National Guard
The Adjutant General
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