As I have stated earlier in this blog, education is crucial.
American popular culture has helped to further the negative stigma associated to veterans of the Vietnam War and the American public treatment of those veterans.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) has worked tirelessly to bring additional substance to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by helping to create an interactive educational center at The Wall. Now the information gathered for this project will be available to our nation's school through the assistance of The History Channel.

It is true that due to the controversial nature of the Vietnam War many of it's returning veterans were met with controversy and conflict upon returning home. However it is important to be aware of the millions of men and women who returned and worked toward increased awareness of veteran's needs. The veterans of the Vietnam war are responsible for much of the work towards understand post traumatic stress disorders and the treatment which is being used to help our soldiers return from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars today.

Educating our nations youth on the mistakes made as well as all the wonderful achievements of our nations veterans is of vital importance to our future. We continue to grow as a nation from the lessons of our past.

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