Service members recall returning from battlefield firefights to cold shoulders, hard looks at home airports
Fifty years made a world of difference for the Vietnam War veterans who were center stage for Saturday's Veterans Day ceremonies at the Mt. Soledad memorial. 'Vietnam is a war that many people don't want to talk about,' said keynote speaker Robert S. Brewer Jr., who served in Vietnam as an airborne ranger and infantry officer. He went on to earn a law degree from the University of San Diego and was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 2019 to 2021.
'You only remember the good times,' said La Mesa resident Mike Marmolejo, who was drafted in 1968 thinking he would serve less than three years in the Navy. 'There's a lot of bad stuff, but you only remember the good.' Trained to be an electronics technician in an amphibious assault unit, he went on to make the Navy a career and had four separate deployments to Vietnam.
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