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[quote=Anonymous]I took my 8-year old to watch Rolling Thunder one year.   Anyway, it wasn't just Vietnam War vets there.  There was an older European gentleman who flew in because something about Rolling Thunder resonated with his war experiences during some UN response.  There was an elderly Native American with a baseball cap announcing he was a Navajo wind talker from WWII.  There was a woman who said she was a nurse in the Vietnam War.  My daughter approached all these people (and others), thanked them for their service, and asked them to sign a R.T. booklet she had.  That's how she learned their story.  Among the riders, one that tugged at my heartstrings was a beautiful, willowy youngish woman riding a big hog, with a flag announcing she was riding in memory of her dad who was killed in the Vietnam War.  He never got to see his daughter grow up.

I believe we owe these veterans BIG.  They were conscripted into the military for a war that was not our problem, and used as cannon fodder.  The rich and sophisticated were able to get out of service, but these people were not so fortunate.

Furthermore, the last time I went to watch Rolling Thunder, there were plenty of younger veterans from Middle Eastern conflicts, in lighter motorcycles.

So I say memorial weekends in D.C. should belong to them for as long as they want it.  I think it's too bad the Powers-That-Be think they're too unsophisticated and rough to be anything but embarrassing.  If you ask me, they earned the right to roll through D.C. and remind all of us who gets sent to fight these wars.  The Pentagon should be bending over backwards to accommodate the people they sprayed with Agent Orange and other toxic concoctions for as long as they wish to be accommodated.[/quote]

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