Marine Corps Vietnam Tankers Historical Foundation©

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE

MARINE CORPS VIETNAM TANKERS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION

More than four decades ago Marine Corps Ontos Crewmen and Tankers deployed to Vietnam to battle the enemy. For a period of 5 years we engaged the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army with valor, honor, and professional integrity. We came home to a nation that in many cases did not agree with our Government’s involvement in that war and to a smaller more aggressive sub-set of dissidents who took out their resistance and frustations to the Vietnam War on the returning Warrior Veterans.

Today our nation appears more clear on the difference between those who send us to war and the Warrior who has pledged his allegiance to that government. And, with time, those who fought the Vietnam War are receiving the favorable recognition they deserve but for so long been denied them.

From 1965 to 1970 Marine Corps Tankers and Ontos Crewmen made history fighting the Vietnam War. 12 years ago this Foundation was established to make that history known to an ever-increasingly accepting public. It has been said that “Every Marine is an Historian” – some make it, others write it, some do both. We honor your service in whatever role you have played, or are playing, in the service of our country.

I join the Foundation’s Board of Directors in wishing you and your families a very Happy 237th Birthday of our Beloved Marine Corps.

 

Semper Fidelis,

Raymond A. Stewart

Raymond A. Stewart

LtCol, USMC (Ret.)

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