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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Almost 50 years since the extremity of the Vietnam War, veterans who served successful that struggle inactive find it hard to speech astir what happened - and the feelings they inactive transportation today.
On Saturday, the Clovis Veterans Memorial District brought Vietnam War veterans unneurotic to grant their work with a commemoration.
It's an epoch of American past often misunderstood. Veterans similar John Cline anticipation events similar this 1 helps the nationalist recognize what they went through.
Cline served arsenic a combat medic successful Vietnam and says today's lawsuit is much important than we mightiness think.
"If we don't archer it and if it's not preserved, it's lost," Cline said.
He is portion of the Vietnam Veterans Of America Chapter 933.
Veteran Terry Brown served arsenic a onshore clearing technologist successful Vietnam. He says helium was conscionable 19 erstwhile helium enlisted.
He says radical often don't cognize astir the enactment helium did during the war.
"What we did is we chopped the jungle down to amended the security. And fundamentally it saved countless lives due to the fact that it chopped down connected the magnitude of attacks on the roadways wherever either civilians were killed oregon injured oregon convoys were blown up," Brown said.
The lawsuit besides honored families who mislaid their loved ones during the war. CEO of the Clovis Veterans Memorial District Lorenzo Rios says helium wants the nationalist to deliberation astir each azygous 1 of the conflict's 58,271 fallen soldiers.
"We indispensable ne'er hide the scars of warfare for those families. They person not forgotten," Rios said.
The lawsuit abstraction was filled with pictures from veterans serving during the war, paired adjacent to a representation of what they look similar now. The lawsuit organizers accidental it is successful an effort to observe the unthinkable travel they've lived; each with the intent to service our country.
"When idiosyncratic says convey you for your service, I'd accidental you were worthy it and the state was worthy it," Cline said.
Lawmakers cleaning the Vietnam Memorial successful Washington D.C.From October 9 to the October 12, the Clovis Memorial Veterans District volition person a replica of the Vietnam Wall memorial connected display. It volition beryllium disposable for everyone to travel instrumentality a look and grant those who died.
