VIetnam Veterans Welcomed Home With Parade in Texas

Vietnam veterans relish greeting at ‘Welcome Home’ event 
Dallas Morning News
Paulina Pineda
August 1, 2015

Soldiers were told not to wear their uniforms in public, said Linda Schwartz, the assistant secretary for policy and planning at the Veterans Affairs Department. “I smile when I see people walking down the street in uniform, because we couldn’t,” she said. “Never again will America hide our troops. We promised veterans we would never turn our backs on other vets.”

Nathan Hunsinger/Staff Photographer The Granbury Lions club float members wave to the crowd during a welcome home event for Vietnam War veterans.

WHITE SETTLEMENT — Veteran Lynn Wolf left behind his 3-month-old son when he was drafted into the Vietnam War.

While overseas, he’d listen to a recording of his son’s babbles to stay connected. By the time he returned, Lynn Wolf Jr. was already a year old. “I didn’t want to go to Vietnam,” he said. But it’s an experience Wolf Sr. wouldn’t trade for the world.

 The 71-year-old and his son drove about 300 miles from the South Texas town of Cuero to attend the “Welcome Home” event at White Settlement’s Veterans Park on Saturday. The event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. read more here