TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT, TO THOSE WHO DIED...WE REMEMBER

I am 25 years old. My father is a Vietnam veteran. I am embarrassed to say that without the Vietnam War I would not be here. If he never went to Vietnam he never would have gotten his choice of duty in the area he met my mother. It breaks my heart to know this He never speaks much of the war, he was there when it all started, the gulf of tonkin. I also have a cousin who was in a Marine Recon platoon, he was there for three years and had to be told to go home, he did not want to go home. Without his wife, he never would have made it in civilian life. She cleaned him up, got him off drugs and turned his life around. I AM VERY PROUD OF EVERY VETERAN I have visited the Wall twice and something inside me wants to go back again and again. I went there the last time for my father. He told me to really feel what its like to go there in my uniform (I was in the Navy at the time) and just try to imagine the hippies and protestors calling these BRAVE men "baby killers" I also went there to take a picture of the memorial for the nurses, not much is ever really said of their sacrifices. They seen the blood and carnage every day just as if they were out in the field. Seeing men, boys really with their brains blown out and arms and legs gone. THANK YOU. I have a POW/MIA bracelet that I have worn since the begining of 1992, Francis L. Setterquist who has been missing in action since 1968, he is from my hometown in Minnesota. It strikes me as funny that not too many people know what these bracelets mean. Every time I look at my hand I REMEMBER. It shoots pain into my heart that our gov't does nothing. To all vets past, present, and fu future. THANK YOU I WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED AND THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE. Please feel free to e-mail me. Especially if you knew Francis Setterquist or my father Joseph A Lundberg USN EMCS(ret) served(1958-1978)