Vietnam Veteran Concerned For All Veterans

Vietnam veteran spotlights biggest struggle facing all vets 
Connect Mid Missouri
by Dan Ebner
Posted: 03.30.2015

"There isn't a pill, there isn't a joke, there isn't you movie you can have them watch... nothing,” Delgado said.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- Three years ago, Governor Jay Nixon signed a bill that made March 30th Vietnam veterans recognition day in Missouri.

One Vietnam vet said the biggest struggle facing veterans of all wars is suicide. Raul Delgado, a member of American Legion Post 5 in Jefferson City, served in Vietnam from 1967 until 1969.

As a Marine, he was a crew chief on a helicopter, flying missions all across Vietnam. Delgado said the problem of veteran suicide doesn’t get the attention it needs and deserves. One reason he said this is because he almost took his own life. "I had the rifle in mouth and my thumb on the trigger... and I was going to pull the trigger," Delgado said.

 57,000 soldiers were killed in action during the war, but over 150,000 veterans of Vietnam have committed suicide.

Delgado said he isn’t just concerned about vets from the war he fought it, but also vets in the current wars.
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