YORBA LINDA, Calif.—Alongside quite a lot of blocks of Yorba Linda Boulevard, a number of of people gathered May 23 waving American flags as Vietnam Battle veterans drove earlier them in conventional sports activities actions autos and large touring buses touring in route of the Nixon Library to have time its latest exhibit: “CAPTURED, Shot Down in Vietnam.”
“This event for our Vietnam vets is prolonged overdue,” January, 74, of Santa Ana, who didn’t give her last title, suggested The Epoch Events. “We despatched so quite a lot of our children off to a battle that they certainly not bought right here once more from.”
In entrance of the Nixon Library have been dozens of black and white POW flags in honor of 150 servicemen in attendance for the exhibit’s opening. Each had been captured and imprisoned whereas serving by way of the battle.
Though gloomy skies hid an Air Stress flyover of F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, its noise struck the viewers with awe.
“These planes truly do have some ‘stealth’ experience, don’t they?” Nixon Foundation Board of Directors member James Byron joked sooner than introducing the event’s keynote speaker, former USMC Col. Jack Brennan.
Brennan, who earned a Bronze Star and Purple Coronary coronary heart for his service by way of the battle, went on to serve President Richard Nixon as his chief aide of the Marine Corps until the president’s resignation in 1974.
“I’ve been very fortunate to have been associated to former POWs for the earlier 5 a very long time,” Brennan acknowledged. “They’ve completed quite a bit for his or her nation.”
On the rostrum, Brennan was quick to moreover honor navy spouses, whom he acknowledged have one of many tough roles throughout the armed forces neighborhood.
“I’ve usually acknowledged that most likely probably the most troublesome job throughout the navy is that of being a navy partner,” he acknowledged. “President Nixon as you perceive is an outstanding patriot and, in his memoirs, he wrote that the POW wives have been the bravest, most courageous ladies he had ever met.”
As a result of the exhibit opened its doorways, Nixon Library staff members led excursions through aisles of Vietnam-era pictures, diagrams, and totally different historic objects, along with a life-size construction of an isolation chamber which many POWs expert whereas captured by communist forces.
With the Paris Peace Accords, 591 U.S. prisoners of battle bought right here dwelling to their households when the battle led to 1973.
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Originally posted 2023-05-24 01:24:12.