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America has been asked by the President and Congress to set aside the week of May 28-June 3 to honor the nearly 9 million men and women who were in our armed forces while we fought in Vietnam.
This is an appropriate request for deserving and hitherto largely unhonored individuals. No one went to the war in Vietnam with banners flying and bands playing, and those who went anonymously came back the same way. The longer the war lasted the more unpopular it became, and its unpopularity seemed to rub off on the very ones who were most intimately caught up in it.
It was a hard war to come home from and an even harder one to look back on.
In past wars, those who fought had the support of society both when they left and when they came home. They didn't have to continually ponder why they did what they did. Society provided the answers. For Vietnam, society provided no answers—only more questions. Too often, for veterans of Vietnam, feelings of frustration and bitterness over military service have been fueled by a sense of isolation from and rejection by the general public.
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