“Welcome home.” Not many Americans who served in Vietnam heard those words when their tours of duty ended and they came home. As the conflict escalated, casualties mounted and costs rose, the anti-war protests increased in number and intensity. In fact, when 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., in 1969 to call for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Vietnam, it was the largest anti-war protest in the nation’s history.
Against this backdrop, there was no heroes’ welcome for Vietnam veterans. Instead, they were met with little acknowledgment and in some cases, even anger or contempt, fueled by a perception that American soldiers had lost the war or caused the deaths of Vietnamese civilians.
Maryland Public Television (MPT) aims to rectify that oversight with MPT Salutes Vietnam Veterans, a multi-million dollar, multi-faceted celebration of those who served during the Vietnam War. A three-hour documentary, Maryland Vietnam War Stories, will air on MPT in one-hour segments on three successive nights, May 24, 25, and 26. The film features veterans representing each branch of the armed forces, as well as medics and corpsmen, nurses, helicopter pilots, and the widow of a downed pilot, among others.
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4 comments:
Hopefully the Democrats won't spit in their faces again.
the gov't has been too lenient on anti war protestors and/or draft dodgers who fled to canada and other places they could have served in non combatant positions or did community service work BUT no, they had to spit in the returning vets faces and insult them with no fear of consequences and later end up with gov't jobs at the expense of american taxpayers what a shambles this country has turned into
The Trump protesters are the same commies that spit on our vets...mindset anyway.
Bless you all, Brothers and Sisters.
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