Navy SEAL Vietnam Veteran Helped Other Veterans Heal

Seal team member returned from Vietnam to help other veterans

Greg Burham served a seven-month tour in Vietnam with SEAL Team 2 in 1970 and early ’71.

I was the only veteran I ever met at the university who had a job, too, at Sparta Health Spa. If you put Vietnam on a resume back in the early ’70s, forget getting hired. We were all supposed to be psychopaths and drug addicts and crazy.

You probably remember the TV programs in the early ’70s and a lot of the movies. The villains and the perpetrators and the crazies were all Vietnam veterans. What the heck?

You know, my dad and all my friends’ fathers were World War II veterans. And they were so honored for their service that I wanted to be in the military when I got old enough, so I could be honored like my father and my friends’ fathers were. ... Well, it didn’t work out that way for us when we first returned.

Really good story you should read but wanted to point this out just in case you forgot what it was like for them coming home before Facebook.