{"id":24368,"date":"2025-05-12T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24368"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:27:14","slug":"over-50-years-later-vietnam-veteran-finally-feel-welcomed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24368","title":{"rendered":"Over 50 years later, Vietnam Veteran finally feel welcomed home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam Veterans Bob and Scotty Dick say they finally got the recognition they never had, thanks to an Honor Flight and VA employees who help Veterans in and outside of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Bob Dick came home from Vietnam in 1972, no one clapped. No one cheered. No one shook his hand.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/139938\/over-50-years-vietnam-veteran-welcomed-home\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/139938\/over-50-years-vietnam-veteran-welcomed-home\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width:265px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) Vietnam Veterans Bob and Scotty Dick say they finally got the recognition they never had, thanks to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1758,87,245],"class_list":["post-24368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits","tag-honor-flight","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24369,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions\/24369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}