Vietnam vet went from homeless shelter to Baghdad

Returning home from a war zone
Bayonne welcomes back 55-year-old vet

by Al Sullivan
Reporter staff writer
Aug 18, 2010
Willmont Griffin – often called “Griff” – is a Vietnam-era veteran even though his tour of duty only required him to serve in that country for two days. He was one of the U.S. Marines pulling terrified people into a CH-53 helicopter just before Saigon fell in April 1975 after Communist forces captured the city.

Thirty-five years later and now an airman with the New Jersey Air National Guard, Griffin returned home from another war zone, Iraq, his second tour of duty to a combat zone since leaving the U.S. Marines in 1977. He was recently named Legionnaire of the Year at the Bayonne American Legion Post.
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Returning home from a war zone