THIS
PAGE IS DEDICATED TO ALL VETERANS, ESPECIALLY THE TROOPS 0F 1ST BAT. 9TH MARINES
DELTA (1969-1970), ASSISTING IN MY DAD'S SAFE ARRIVAL HOME. MY DAD CAME BACK
FROM NAM AND FOR THAT I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL.
HE
HAS DEVELOPED INTO MY ROLL MODEL AND MOST IMPORTANT MY HERO!
WHEN
I WAS YOUNG I DIDN'T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND WHAT VIETNAM WAS OR WHY MY DAD WAS
THERE. I JUST KNEW HE WASN'T WITH MY BROTHER AND ME. MY MOM WOULD SIT IN FRONT
OF THE TV AND LOOK FOR HIM HOPING NOT TO SEE HIM.
WELL
POPS YOU DESERVE SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DID AND I HOPE THIS LITTLE PART CAN BRING
YOU THE HAPPINESS AND JOY THAT I WAS BLESSED WITH UPON YOUR RETURN.
The
thing that most people don’t understand about Vietnam is that whether you
were in country or home waiting for the door to open and reveal your loved one.
We all where affected by Vietnam, now it became a part of our life's. I was about
4 years old when the door opened for my family. To me I saw my dad but it has
taken years to understand what nam did to him and me. As I write these words I
can close my eyes and feel the pain that he and his brothers endured. How can
people be so ignorant to see all the negative things that nam gave them. Why
can’t people look at this man and say, thank you!
Thank
you for doing what I could not.
Thank you for giving me the chance to enjoy my freedom.
Thank you for you gave of yourself more than I could.
Thank you for doing a job that you never even new how to do.
Thank you for you are my hero’s!
Vietnam
will live inside me till the day I die and I know it will live through my
children’s eyes. The brothers my Dad lost in nam will never be forgotten
because my tears will always carry them whether happy or sad, I cry with my
Dad’s brothers and the one gift I will always cherish, that most can not, is I
will cry with my dad! For that I thank you all!
Here
is a Link To Operation Dewey Canyon 1/22/69 written by:
C. Douglas Sterner.
My dad was there
