VIDEOS: Pass Assemblyman Tells Vietnam Vets They Are Not Forgotten
"We feared we would die or we feared we would kill. We simply feared, and often we still do. We hate the war, but sometimes we feel it was the best thing that ever happened to us. We blame Uncle Sam or Uncle Ho and often wonder if Agent Orange got us.
Ingersoll said he served two tours in Vietnam, in 1965 and 1966.
"I don't talk about it much," Ingersoll said when asked about his time in Vietnam. "I still see a psych - a psychologist - two times a week to deal with it."
Ingersoll paused and said, "I'd like to say that today, because of everything that's happened in the world, I think people appreciate Vietnam vets for what they sacrificed and what they did, versus what it was like when when we came home in '65, '66 . . . we're appreciated a lot more. People come up and thank us for our service, and that means an awful lot to us."
"Mostly, and this we believe with all our hearts. We wish we had not been so alone. We went in with friends whom we saw get blown up in front of us. Most of us were jerked up out of the 'world,' shaved, beat, barked at, insulted, humiliated with racism, and called baby killers.
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