The Vietnam Veteran as Exile: Missing in America, But Hidden in Plain Sight

Another great post by my friend Lily at Healing Combat Trauma

August 15, 2008
The Vietnam Veteran as Exile: Missing in America, But Hidden in Plain Sight
My friend the veteran artist John Paul Hornbeck made this flag -- I just love it. It carries forward the whole issue of POW/MIA into the present day, by asking in effect why the veteran is "still" Missing in America (that's the "MIA" part these days.) He mocked up this flag, using the old and familiar symbol, to highlight the cause of homeless veterans in America -- a cause worth addressing.

I'm broadening the point, though, to something else:

Why ARE Vietnam veterans, in particular, still exiles in their own land?

And what should we, as a country, be doing about that?
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http://www.healingcombattrauma.com/2008/08/the-veteran-as-
exile-missing-in-america---in-plain-sight.html