March 29 declared Vietnam Vets Day in Minn.

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March 29 declared Vietnam Vets Day in Minn.




The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Mar 28, 2008 12:06:05 EDT
ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s Vietnam War veterans are getting a long-awaited “welcome home” from their state government.
Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed a bill designating March 29 as Vietnam Veterans Day in the state. His office says Minnesota follows Tennessee as the only states to carve out a special day for veterans of that war.
At a signing ceremony, Pawlenty told a crowd of veterans and their families that it was “shameful” that soldiers from that conflict didn’t get a warmer reception upon returning from war.
He says the Vietnam Veterans Day — the first of which falls this Saturday — will put the focus on the sacrifices of those veterans.
Roughly 147,000 Minnesotans served in that war and 1,072 died.



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