I was in fourth grade. I will never forget the conflict my father had when this happened. At the time he was a logistics officer, Capt. I believe, at the Pentagon. He had served two and half combat tours in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division. The halls of the pentagon were strangely quiet. He never said one way or the other as to whether we should have gone in the first place. He took the position that he followed a lawful order, that it wasn’t up to him to do anything but follow orders. He did question whether his sacrifice (and that of my mom) was justified as Vietnam folded immediately to North Vietnam.

Yes. Many were processed at Fort Chaffee in Fort Smith, Arkansas about 3 miles from my house, the same Fort Elvis Presley was in. It took thousands of employees and volunteers including english language teachers to complete that process for several months.

I feel now it was a wasted war and too many died for nothing. It went on too long. Some say it started because of rubber trees. Many Vietnamese are thankful to this day we helped them get out. We met a young man fishing awhile back and he told us his story of being on a boat about to sink and they just had clothes on their back no shoes. They were rescued and he thanked the veteran with us for fighting for their freedom. Very moving .

Amen!! Happy Easter to you and yours!