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It's been 49 years since I got out of the U.S. Army. Do we realize that when we went in, it was only 49 years since the end of World War 1? On the other hand, my father was born eight months before the first flight at Kitty Hawk. My grandfather was born five years before the first shots at Fort Sumter. Time flies.
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Come November, it'll be 57 years since I enlisted. Just typing that makes me feel damn old!
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Larry, My admitting that I just turned 72 makes me feel old. Thinking that we are pushing 80 hurts! Me on my 21st birthday! Karl 
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Great picture, Karl. I promise, if I post a picture of me in military background in 1968, I'll post a backup picture of me in 2019, but with shirt on. Thanks.
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I went to a memorial service today for my neighbor. He was a Vietnam vet, which I was aware of, but I didn't know he was a Ranger and had 3 purple hearts and some serious commendations for bravery. Cancer got him and he figured it was Agent Orange that ultimately did him in.
I'll miss our driveway discussions about a myriad of different things. A truly good guy who would do anything for a person. He was 70 on March 22nd.
Cameron Hughes
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Cameron,
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, and I too have lost a couple from suspected Agent Orange. I still have my AO letter sent to me after discharge to remind me.
Karl
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Many, many thanks to those who served during that war, especially to those who went to VN. I have the utmost respect for you! Thanks is not enough, but all I have to offer.
May God Bless all of you!
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Gregory J. Westberg
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It's been said that those who served in Vietnam didn't get the homecoming they deserved until after the Gulf War. Thankfully, we are a better nation now. What a change from those old days back in the 70's, when we wore civilian clothes when doing open source research at the University of Iowa library because those in uniform weren't welcome. I'm still amazed by all the "thank you for your service!" greetings I get when I wear my "US Army Veteran" cap.
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Larry,
I'm thankful for the turn around of treatment, and appreciate it. It helps to make up for getting spit upon as I passed through the San Francisco airport on my return home.
I'm often asked by the younger generation "why don't you just let it go?". You can imagine my response!
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I never experienced any bad treatment when I was released from the Army, nor did I experience any bad treatment while I was in uniform while travelling. I was a little short on transportation and hitchhiked my way home and back to my duty station wearing my class A uniform. Most of this was on Interstate 95. I never had any trouble getting rides while in uniform. I don't associate with liberals, so I don't experience the comments Karl mentions. My grandsons are in law enforcement and my granddaughter spends as much time at my house as at her parents' house, so no political problems there. I live in an extremely rural section of the communist empire of Montgomery County, Maryland, and all of my neighbors either work the land or work hard at something else. Very few liberals or employees of "non profit" organizations within a mile of my home, as far as I know.
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