Vietnam Veteran says "Our patriotism has never waned."

Vietnam War vet uses Internet to connect and share stories with comrades
Ocala.com
By Andy Fillmore
Correspondent
Published: Saturday, May 31, 2014

Vietnam War veteran Scott Henry has a special connection with artist Lee Teter's work "Vietnam Reflections," which hangs in his home.

The picture depicts a man in civilian clothes, deep in emotion, leaning on the outside of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall with a vision of a squad of combat weary soldiers staring back at him. A soldier inside the wall appears to put his hand up to meet that of the visitor.

"It's very emotional to visit the wall. I have three friends from my hometown on it," said Henry, 67, who regularly visits the memorial.

Henry was with the III Marine Amphibious Force, 3rd Military Police Battalion, Delta Company Armed Forces Police in Da Nang, Vietnam, in 1968 and 1969.

He said he was greeted with a nasty homecoming in San Francisco, where insults like "baby killer" were hurled at him as the 21-year-old Navy veteran traveled to his native Winneconne, Wisconsin, where he received a warm welcome.

"We all came back and put the Vietnam War far from our consciousness. As we've grown older we are looking back."

"Our patriotism has never waned," he said.
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