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Laredo’s Vietnam Conflict vets honored by AHEC on Nationwide Vietnam Conflict Veterans Day

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March 30, 2021
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In honor of Nationwide Vietnam Conflict Veterans Day on Monday, the Space Well being Training Middle invited all Vietnam Conflict veterans and their surviving spouses to a commemoration at North Central Park.

AHEC Government Director Julie Bazan stated this was a chance for Laredo to point out respect and kindness to their veterans, regardless of their pores and skin shade or what they appear to be.

Because the occasion’s keynote speaker, 406th District Court docket Decide Oscar “O.J.” Hale Jr. informed tales of his father and different Laredoans who fought within the Vietnam Conflict. Combined into their tales of heroism and sacrifice was the undercurrent of the politics of the conflict, which was unpopular and controversial again dwelling within the U.S.


“But whatever the cause for the conflict, or whether or not it was proper or unsuitable to be there, we mustn’t ever confuse the conflict for the warrior. We should at all times shield the soldiers for performing their patriotic responsibility,” Hale stated.

He informed the story of his good friend Sam Ayala, who survived after being struck by gunfire and returned dwelling proper in the midst of the conflict protests. On the airplane, a girl stated she didn’t need to sit subsequent to him, and Ayala was made to really feel ashamed of his ache, Hale stated.

“What ought to have been a proud flight dwelling with a hero’s welcome for Sam and for a lot of others became an uncomfortable and shameful expertise that they need to have by no means needed to face,” he stated. “Listening to those actual life conflict tales, to those that performed an element, from a few of our personal native heroes, at all times evokes me and jogs my memory of simply how lucky we’re to reside on this nice nation and this patriotic metropolis.”


Veteran Doug Alford additionally spoke on the occasion Monday. He famous that in World Conflict II, 10% of the troopers who fought from Laredo have been in reality Nuevo Laredoans. And a few of their kids went on to serve in Vietnam, he stated.

Alford, citing how troublesome it was for a lot of of those troopers to come back dwelling from the conflict, requested the group to at all times go up and shake the hand of a soldier in uniform and thank them for his or her service.

Following the speeches, the veterans in attendance got a pin in commemoration of their service.

On March 29, 2012, President Barack Obama proclaimed Vietnam Veterans Day in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the conflict. It’s going to proceed by Veterans Day in 2025.



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