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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