So why are so many charities leaving them behind?

If you do a Google search on Vietnam Veteran, click news, this is on the first page of 8,280,000 results. Each one of them is about doing something for someone else.

That is the point of that generation. Vietnam veterans vowed to never leave another generation of veterans behind. So why are so many charities leaving them behind?

Vietnam veteran says he is glad soldiers are respected now

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Vietnam veteran Rom Brown served in the U.S. Army in 1969 and 1970, and like many others, he did not have much of a say. Brown, now 68 ...

Vietnam veterans help others access VA benefits
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Vietnam vets honored during Fort Polk ceremony
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Vietnam veteran: I didn't go in there just to loaf and have a good time ...

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Drum served a little more than a year in Vietnam, working as a clerk at a hospital unit about 7 miles away from the Vietnamese Demilitarized ...

Vietnam veteran was a Marine and in the Army

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In January 1968, Coulter arrived in Vietnam, where he worked as a radio ... Vietnam veteran Clifton Coulter proudly stands in his front yard ...

Vietnam veteran still coping with effects of war

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“But what people didn't realize back then − instead of the government sending someone to tell people that their child had died in Vietnam, they ...

Vietnam veteran Tom Williams is twice decorated, never intimidated

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The thing you have to understand, says retired federal judge Tom Williams, is how invulnerable the young person feels who enlists during ...

Vietnam War veterans' kids say Agent Orange impact 'a nightmare'

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The daughter of a combat Vietnam veteran who served in 1969 until 1970 in areas that were the most heavily sprayed with Agent Orange, Kuhn ...

Vietnam veteran Lee Smith Jr. enjoys sharing the less harrowing war ...

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The first lesson Lee C. Smith Jr. learned in the Army was that panicking was the fastest way to get yourself and your peers killed during war.

Decorated Longmont Vietnam vet recovers medals lost to the flood

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A Vietnam veteran who served in the 101st Airborne from 1967 to 1969, he came home with not only a lot of keepsakes; he came home with, ...

A long time coming: Badger Honor Flight gives Vietnam vets proper ...

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JANESVILLE. John Gorski kept his emotions in check during most of the recent Badger Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.. But when the Vietnam ...

A VETERAN'S STORY: Understanding Veterans Day
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A Vietnam veteran died with no family to attend his funeral. So other ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee community came together Friday to make sure an unclaimed veteran would not be forgotten.

Battle of Ben Cui "...my father doesn’t need an occasion to remember."

'They Are My Men': A 50-Year Veterans Reunion Helped My Dad Process A Brutal Battle

NPR
by Kara Frame
Nov. 11, 2018

At that exact time 50 years ago, the guys were half a world away, about to enter battle. It was a muggy morning and my dad’s unit, part of the 5th Infantry Regiment,was headed on a reconnaissance mission into enemy territory. There were 88 men from his unit there that day. Some were on foot, wading through thick brush into the dark canopy of the Ben Cui rubber tree plantation. Others were in armored personnel carriers behind .50-caliber machine guns.

Not a day goes by that my dad, former Army Staff Sgt. Tom Frame, doesn’t think about the men who fought and died alongside him in Vietnam.

Staff Sgt. Tom Frame, the author's father, stands at right in this 1968 snapshot from Vietnam. Frame family photo

In recent years for Veterans Day, he and some other guys from his unit have paid tribute by traveling to Texas, which was home for Staff Sgt. Marvin Rex Young. Young was one of 18 men who lost their lives in the Battle of Ben Cui, an intense firefight between my dad’s unit and the North Vietnamese army.

The pilgrimages have been a way for my dad to reconnect with his fellow soldiers. And it was another trip to Texas, back in the summer, that really helped him honor Young and the others who died in the Battle of Ben Cui.

It has been 50 years since Ben Cui, and to mark the anniversary, my dad organized a reunion for soldiers from his unit and for family – the first time since 1968 that the men would be together on the day of the battle, Aug. 21.

I asked him why he wanted to get the guys together. “It’s my duty,” he said.

But really, my father doesn’t need an occasion to remember. “I wake up in the morning and I look outside at a beautiful morning — and I think about them,” he told me. He wonders why he survived and they didn’t. It weighs on him. And it has weighed on our whole family — in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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I wanted to see the darkness turn to the light of day

Dawn of Veterans Day

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Kathie Costos
November 11, 2108

Before dawn yesterday, I went out to Apopka to walk along the path of the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall. I wanted to see the darkness turn to the light of day.

Much like when you drive surrounded by darkness, you can light your way by turning on your headlights, you can do that with your life as well.

The darkness can feel overwhelming at times and it can be hard to see what is around you.
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509 U.S. military personnel died by suicide in 2017

Army Wants Sergeants in the Barracks on Weekends to Prevent Suicides

Military.com
By Matthew Cox
November 8, 2018

The U.S. Army's top official said Thursday that he wants to see sergeants making regular visits to the barracks on weekends to help reduce the number of soldiers who die by suicide.

Suicide is a problem that every service struggles to prevent. In calendar year 2017, 509 U.S. military personnel died by suicide, according to Defense Department numbers. Of that number, the Army suffered 298 deaths by suicide across the active duty, National Guard and Reserve.

"It's a tragedy that we have suicide in our ranks, but it's coming into our ranks from society writ large," Army Secretary Mark Esper told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute. "Every week, I am signing letters to families offering my condolences for soldiers who have taken their lives."

The problem typically affects younger soldiers and is usually "related to personal financial problems, relationship problems and career concerns," Esper said, adding that alcohol consumption can be a factor as well.

It's also "typically a Friday night though Sunday morning problem," he said.
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Veteran Army Pilot Helps Homeless Vets Get Back on Their Feet

Former Army Pilot Helps Homeless Vets Get Back on Their Feet: ‘What She’s Done for Me Saved My Life’

PEOPLE
Susan Keating
November 9, 2018

One former Marine, Christopher S.W. Quincer, had lost everything — his job, housing and family — before Snyder found him five years ago in a shelter. “She got me into housing, and paid my first six months rent,” says Quincer, 43. She helped him get a job, reunited him with his family and Quincer now runs a successful company.

Former Army helicopter pilot Deborah Snyder has gone from the cockpit to the boardroom to take on an important mission: finding homes for veterans who don’t have a place to live.

“I don’t think we should have homeless vets,” Snyder, a retired lieutenant colonel, tells PEOPLE. “It’s a fixable problem.”

Since 2011, Snyder, 53, and her organization, the Operation Renewed Hope Foundation, have fixed the problem for more than 800 homeless veterans in the Washington, D.C., area.

“We find housing for them, and help in other ways too,” Snyder says, noting that the organization’s services include help with transportation, jobs and medical services.
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Marine Vet Would Have Tried to Help Shooter Heal PTSD

Slain Marine Vet Would Have Tried to Help Shooter if He Could, Friend Says

Military.com
By Hope Hodge Seck
November 10, 2018

"I know that if the shooter -- it's hard to even say he's a Marine, it hurts -- If Dan and I knew this guy needed help, we would be like, 'hey, dude, what can we do for you,'" Andrade said. "We clicked with veterans fast, quick. Dan would have helped this guy."

An hour and change before Dan Manrique's life was brutally cut short in a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California Wednesday night, he had been in a meeting with fellow members of veterans organization Team Red White and Blue, brainstorming about how to improve community within the group and connect better with veterans in need.

Rudy Andrade, far left, stands next to fellow Marine Corps veteran Dan Manrique, who was killed in a mass shooting Nov. 7 at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. 

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So when Rudolph Andrade, a Team RWB chapter captain for Los Angeles, got a text message the following day asking if Manrique had been in the vicinity of the shooting, Andrade's first response was reassurance.

"Dan was with me last night when all this happened," Andrade said he replied.

Days later, the shock of processing the loss of Manrique, a close friend as well as a teammate, is still setting in for him.

In fact, there were at least three members of Team RWB at the scene horrific shooting that claimed 12 lives, according to Andrade and postings on the Team RWB Ventura County Facebook page: Manrique, on full-time staff for the group as the Pacific Regional Manager; Justin Meek, a promoter at the bar killed in the shooting, who'd reportedly planned on joining the Coast Guard after college; and Fernan Diamse, another chapter member who made it out alive, but sustained a cut on his arm from broken window glass in his effort to escape.
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Fort Carson 300 Welcomed Home

300 soldiers return from Afghanistan in an emotional family reunion

KRDO News
By: Dani Fried
Posted: Nov 09, 2018

A homecoming for about 300 Fort Carson soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division was held Friday morning at 12:45 at William "Bill" Reed Special Events Center.

Families filled the center earlier in the evening, preparing to greet their loved ones.

"I can't wait for him to meet his son," said Ursula Lopez, whose son, Damien, was born only three days after her husband was deployed.

The 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed in February. They were gone for a total of nine months.

Teddy Anderson, the young son of Maj. John Anderson, immediately began crying after Major Anderson ran in front of the other soldiers to greet him and his brother.
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Apopka at the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall

Dawn at the Wall

Combat PTSD Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
November 10, 2018

This morning I went out to Apopka at the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall. It was an overpowering experience just before dawn.

While I have been to many of these exhibits, it was the first time I walked around looking at the names, without crowds of people.

Most of the time I had to take a deep breath, unable to talk, no matter how many times I turned the video camera on.

No one can read the names and then forget how much that Wall means to all veterans. Sure, those are just the names of servicemembers who sacrificed their lives in Vietnam, but the Wall itself offers a message to all generations that they mattered too.

Veteran Day is the one day of the year when we are supposed to let them know they do matter. We just need to make sure that they matter the other 364 days a year, just as much.

Make sure to check PTSD Patrol tomorrow for the other video.

UPDATE
This is a video of the Wall going up from News 13