Vietnam Veterans

03/16/2026

03/16/2026

My dad Tom served in Vietnam from 1969-1970 he lost his battle with lung cancer March 7,2024 at age 75 he was a proud veteran and he had exposure to agent orange and jungle rot from the war, I'm proud of my dad and miss him. God bless America and all veterans!

thanks for everyones kind vwords my dad would have really appreciated it thanks so much🙏😁

03/16/2026

This is my 14-year-old grandson wearing wearing 58 uniform that I worn when I was in discharged from the 2/14, the Golden Dragons. If you were with the2/14th, please contact me.

03/16/2026

"If you respect the soldiers who sacrificed their lives, type YES."

03/16/2026

Unfortunately I got the news my Brother in Law passed. Michael Blaisdell I’m not sure his years of service but it was in the 70’s. RIP Michael.

03/16/2026

Recognizing my dad and all Vietnam War veterans today! Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

03/16/2026

He Returned From Vietnam... But The Brother | Knew Never Came Back

03/16/2026

"Vietnam didn't end in 75-it lives on in the men who served"

03/15/2026

My father has cancer. Stage four. The VA said maybe four months. He served three tours in Vietnam and came home to people spitting on him, calling him baby killer, telling him his service meant nothing. He never talked about the war. Never wore his medals. Never went to reunions. Just carried fifty-two years of shame for doing what his country asked him to do.

Last month hospice started coming to the house and I realized I had no idea how to honor him, how to tell him his life mattered when he'd spent half a century believing it didn't. So I posted in a quilting group asking if anyone made military quilts, and a woman responded immediately. She'd found me through the Tedooo app where she runs a shop making Quilts of Valor for dying veterans. She said "I'll start tonight."

She finished it in three weeks, worked around the clock because Dad's time is short. Every star is hand-stitched. Every stripe is perfectly aligned. She shipped it express and included a letter thanking him for his service, telling him that her father died alone believing nobody cared that he'd served. She said "Let your dad know the country was wrong. His service mattered. He matters."We wrapped him in it yesterday. This photo is him seeing it for the first time. He cried for twenty minutes, kept touching the stars, kept saying "Someone made this for me?" I've started coordinating with other quilters on Tedooo app now, connecting dying veterans with makers who can get quilts finished in time. Racing against cancer, against time, against fifty years of men dying before anyone told them thank you.

Dad has maybe six weeks now. But he'll leave wrapped in stars.

03/15/2026

In 1969 and 3 months of 1970,। was an Army Combat Engineer and Demolition Specialist attached to the 4th Infantry Division at Camp Enari. Here's my then and now.