Treatment of Vietnam War Veterans by https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-10-02 14:04:42 UTC 2024-05-27 11:24:38 UTC hello@padlet.com "Shut Up and Suck it Up" hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288133478 Doug Avery, a young medic in Dust Off, gives his perspective on the Vietnam War 46 years later.

]]> 2018-10-02 14:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288133478 Veterans Protesting Due to a Lack of Jobs 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288134197 2018-10-02 14:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288134197 Dust Off hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288136060 Casualty evacuation, also known as CASEVAC or by the callsign Dust Off, is a military term for the emergency patient evacuation of casualties from a combat zone. ]]> 2018-10-02 14:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288136060 "We were not honored, but were treated as the face of an unpopular war.” 2025882 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288139443 - Bob Feist, Army Veteran and retired Navy Piolet]]> 2018-10-02 14:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288139443 Not All Veterans Got the Same Disrespect hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288142160 2018-10-02 14:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288142160 "The Greatest Generation" 2025882 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288142311 World War II veterans received more benefits, higher wages and less inequality compared to non-veterans. ]]> 2018-10-02 14:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288142311 Vietnam War Veteran Describes Returning to the U.S. 2025882 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288602016 2018-10-03 13:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288602016 Coming Home: 2025882 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288606635 The Vietnam veterans were not received by parades and celebrations like those from World War I and World War II.

Instead they got protesters who blamed them for the doing what the government ordered them to do. ]]> 2018-10-03 13:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288606635 “When I returned from Vietnam in late 1968, I was stationed at the Naval base in Norfolk. I personally was spat upon by two teenagers just after leaving the base one evening” hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288615107 - Glenn K. Currie, Army Veteran]]> 2018-10-03 13:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288615107 “The whole situation got so bad in this Navy town that regulations came out from the base commander that military personnel were not allowed to wear their uniforms off the base on liberty.” hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288616815 - Glenn K. Currie, Army Veteran]]> 2018-10-03 13:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288616815 "We were shamed and embarrassed. My car (with a military base sticker) was "egged." I bought a wig to hide my military haircut." hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288617185 -Bob Feist, combat-disabled Army Veteran ]]> 2018-10-03 13:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288617185 World War II Victory Parade 2025882 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288620435 2018-10-03 13:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288620435 Protest Against the Vietnam War 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288621541 2018-10-03 13:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288621541 How Vietnam War Veterans Were Treated 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288626476 2018-10-03 13:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288626476 Mental Health Problems for Veterans 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288628408 Many veterans faced some mental health problems upon return, including PTSS/PTSD (post-traumatic stress syndrome/disorder).]]> 2018-10-03 13:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288628408 “Discharge in Sight? Oh boy! You’ve had a rough time of it. You’ve fought hard and well. You’ve suffered and toiled. But now that’s over, or soon will be, and you’ll be back in the Good, Old U.S.A.” hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288641339 -excerpt from The Red Circle Guide for Soldiers, Sailor and Marines]]> 2018-10-03 14:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288641339 "The story of veterans returning home from war dates from the beginning of armed conflict but veterans were not given much support in transitioning from military to civilian life until the 20th century. Much of the government and private programs created to help veterans were established in the aftermath of World War I." hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288641348 -Museum Archivist and Coming Home exhibition curator Jonathan Casey]]> 2018-10-03 14:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288641348 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288645917 2018-10-03 14:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288645917 “There I was, a week out of the jungle, flying from San Francisco to New York. I fell asleep and woke up yelling, probably a nightmare. The other passengers moved away from me - a reaction I noticed more and more in the months ahead. The country didn’t give a [care] about the guys coming back, or what they’d gone through. The feeling toward them was, ‘Stay away - don’t contaminate us with whatever you’ve brought back from Vietnam’" 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288648697 - John Kerry, a U.S. Senator, upon his return from Vietnam]]> 2018-10-03 14:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288648697 hill_lauren https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288652023 2018-10-03 14:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288652023 "Damaged Goods" 2025882 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/288653221 Often people assumed Vietnam veterans would be physically or mentally damaged after they returned. 

Vietnam veterans received lower wages, fewer (if any) benefits and more inequality.
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]]> 2018-10-17 00:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/293641435 Treatment of Vietnam War veterans - How were Vietnam War veterans treated by the government and the public in general in comparison to WWI and WWII veterans? Were they respected or disrespected, and why? 2021411 https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/293643148 2018-10-17 00:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hill_lauren/iyf260glor5q/wish/293643148