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2024 Vietnam Veterans Tribute

March 20, 2024

Press release from Alachua County

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Alachua County Veteran Services is hosting the 2024 Vietnam Veterans Tribute on Friday, March 29, 2024, at 11 a.m. in the Freedom Center at the Veterans Memorial (7400 S.W. 41st Place, Gainesville). This free event includes displays and special guest Veteran speakers and will conclude with refreshments and comradery. Veterans of all eras are welcome to attend.

Alachua County Veteran Services Director Kim Davis said, “It is our privilege to honor our Vietnam Veterans for all that they have done for our country and for the impact that was made to better the future of American Veterans.”

  • I plan to attend. Thank you for bringing this event to our attention.
    I was in the Navy during VietNam and it was a troubling time to be a veteran in America.
    Let’s hope that the democratic war dogs don’t lead us into another horrible war again. The next one may be the last one for civilization.

    • Our support for “The Republic of Viet Nam” began with Eisenhower in 1955, and after the bogus Gulf of Tonkin incident the Congress passed approval of Johnson’s “response” with only 2 dissenting votes. Nixon kept the war going after promising peace but also after subverting ongoing peace talks in 1968, and Democratic candidate McGovern – he was a WWII medal winning bomber pilot – ran in opposition to the war.

      The behavior of many leaders of both parties about VN was shameful, especially the unwillingness to admit it was a failure by both Johnson and Nixon, who kept it going and kept sending Americans there to be maimed or killed.

        • The whole Vietnam war was a FUBAR and it cost the lives of 70,000 young men (average age WW 11 26, average age Vietnam 19) their lives and for many more their peace of mind. Then they came home to be spit on. My husband was spit at, yelled at, cursed and abused when he stepped off his plane.

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