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Vietnam Vets in NM: We're Treated With Respect, Now

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Monday, November 10, 2014   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Veterans Day is Tuesday, and for Vietnam veterans in New Mexico and across the U.S., it may be a more pleasant experience than in years past.

"The treatment for veterans up until about five, six years ago was not all that great,” says Mike Schramski, a Vietnam veteran who now operates a business in Albuquerque.

“And now I'm constantly having people walk up to me and (say), 'Thank you for your service,' and it's just a nice attitude."

Schramski says his fellow Vietnam veterans also say they're enjoying a new respect from an increasingly appreciative nation.

He adds that America is a different place today with a lot more respect for military service, than during the Vietnam era.

Schramski stresses he was never ashamed of his military service, but like many returning Vietnam veterans, he was treated shamefully.

"When I came through, back from Vietnam, I came through San Francisco,” he relates. “I could tell you stories, it was embarrassing.

“Through my work history, through college, nobody knew that I was a Vietnam veteran. It's not something that I would tell anybody."

Schramski maintains media coverage of the Persian Gulf War and more recent conflicts in the Middle East has been more balanced than it was during the Vietnam War.

"The attitude of the reporters, and the attitude of the stories being reported is – they're doing a great job,” he says. “Back in Vietnam. it was, 'These guys are messing up the country worse than they should,' or you know, the old baby killer part."

According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 58,220 U.S. troops were killed during the Vietnam War.





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