"For quite some time, during and after the Vietnam War, good old-fashioned patriotism and support of military efforts were sometimes downplayed in the United States.
The Vietnam conflict was not popular, and those returning home from it had few welcome parties at the airport and or bands playing patriotic music for them.
During the Vietnam War, mothers and wives didn’t march in parades, church groups didn’t collect items for care packages, and school children didn’t send stacks of letters of support."
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Wagner, of the Blue Star Mothers also located a copy of the words spoken by President Lyndon Johnson when he honored Pvt. Love’s military unit with a presidential citation. Johnson said, “I never think of a Marine but what I think of a man who wants to do more, not less; a man you have to hold back and not shove. As I present you with this citation, I salute you in the name of freedom that you have defended and the honor that you have won for your country.”— President Lyndon B. Johnson, 17 October 1968.
Mother who lost son in Vietnam War presented gold star:
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