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MEMORIAL
DAY 2008
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Rosedale's Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Attacked By Anti-War Protesters Twice In April 1970. Below are two pictures.
Questions about the Rosedale
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, please email the Memorial's Caretaker: Frederick Kress Rosedale,
NY Herr281761@aol.com
LOOK ON THESE NAMES
YOU WHO IN THESE
TROUBLED TIMES
DESPAIR
LOOK ON THESE NAMES
AND THANK YOUR GOD
OUR NATION STILL HAS
GALLANT MEN WHO CARE
| Rosedale Vietnam Veteran Memorial April 1970 |
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| Rosedale Vietnam Veteran Memorial April 1970 |
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Attack On Honorable American Veterans
I was born and raised in Rosedale NYC. The Rosedale Vietnam Veteran Memorial
was dedicated on Memorial Day 1968. I was in Vietnam serving in the Combined Action Program (CAP), when the Rosedale
Memorial was attacked (April 1970) twice by anti-war protestors. Someone sent me the LONG ISLAND PRESS newspaper clippings
and pictures through the mail.
In 1971, when I returned from living in and protecting a Vietnamese
peasant-farming village, a New York City bus driver told me that I could get on the bus for free. But I had to
sit in the back of the bus. He said that he didn't want any trouble, because I was wearing my Marine Corps uniform with
my Purple Heart on it. (At the time, John Kerry and his friends were busy in Washington DC,
America's Talk Shows and especially in American newspapers and television news reports.)
What or who was the bus driver afraid of? Did the bus driver feel that too
many people on the bus would give me a "Welcome Home?"
P.S. The bus ride was the only time I wore my
uniform in public.
Questions about the Rosedale
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, please email the Memorial's Caretaker: Frederick Kress Rosedale,
NY Herr281761@aol.com
Questions about the Rosedale
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, please email the Memorial's Caretaker: Frederick Kress Rosedale,
NY Herr281761@aol.com
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