American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts struggle - USATODAY.com
This is sad but I'm afraid the roots of the decline go back to Vietnam. Korean War veterans, for the most part, were welcomed into the vet service organizations as one of their own. That never seemed to be the case for Vietnam vets, who if not treated with outright contempt by their elders, were told they were boys who didn't fight in a real war. Couple just a few attitudes from vets with the general disdain for Vietnam vets held by the public at large and the current problem seems quite predictable.
Old, festering wounds perhaps never really heal.
I have to paraphrase Rambo here: "All we ever wanted was for our country to love us half as much we loved her."
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