I've only browsed here here before, and wanted to acknowledge the recent efforts of our local community in welcoming home our returning troops. Here, the family and friends and the local motorcycle patriots make a caravan with flags flying, the local deputies and police escort them in with reds & blues flashing, folks are out on the streets with "welcome home signs".
Google Panolawatchman.com for articles and photos, and tell them "thanks".
Then I read down further in this forum and found the things written by AtlLaw and others in "45 years ago today", posted last year. In the course of a career as an MP, I served one tour in RVN, '69-'70, and am still in awe at the courage of those who fought in the air and on the ground. Y'all make the few little skirmishes we had on convoy runs seem even more miniscule than they really were.
Welcome home, brothers. It's a lot different out there now, isn't it?