This deplorable treatment happened to MOH Sammy Davis after he earned the Medal of Honor and was released from the hospital.
What Sammy Davis did is read in the Citation and what was done to him are in this video. Imagine as you listen to the account of his heroism, being treated the way he was. Then imagine how much it took for Sammy to turn around and join the National Guards after all of this.
It happened to them but because of them it doesn't happen now. It isn't about giving veterans a second chance of coming home. It is more about giving the American people a second chance to do the right thing.
Giving Vietnam Veterans a Second Chance to Come Home
Post-9/11 vets are helping an older generation experience a more friendly homecoming
Take Part.com
Rebecca McCray
October 10, 2014
In August 1971, Terry Sorrells came home to southern Indiana from the Vietnam War and asked his dad if he wanted to go squirrel hunting. The season had just started, and it was a pastime they’d shared before he left for the war. So they took their shotguns, walked to the back of their farm, and parked themselves under a tree.
They saw a squirrel on the tree’s trunk, but it scampered around to the other side after it heard them approach. Sorrells’ dad asked him if he knew why the squirrel had run away. “Well, Pop, we scared him,” Sorrells recalled telling him. “He looked at me and he said, ‘I’ll tell you why he did. He wants to live just as much as we do.’ ”
That moment ended Sorrells’ hunting career. “We both got up, cracked open our shotguns and took the shells out, and we walked back home.”
Today, many post-9/11 veterans are forging connections with those who fought in the Vietnam War, not unlike the bond Sorrells shared with his father that summer. These intergenerational friendships have spawned a wave of ceremonies around the country that are intended to give Vietnam vets a second, friendlier homecoming, like the ones received by those who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan 45 years later.
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We both lived this, and of course still do. Thank your Hero Hubby for his great service, and thank you for all you do Kathie for all of us!
ReplyDeleteThank You! He's just like every other veteran we know. Don't call them heroes because they always say they were just doing their jobs. I think what they do when they come back home for other veterans is what really makes them heroes.
ReplyDeleteWe were doing a fundraiser for the DAV today and he went yesterday too. We're always involved in doing something for one of the groups he belongs to and that is right where he wants to be.
Thank you for all you do and for all the support you gave me over the years. I never seem to say that enough.