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...first objective was Arlington National Cemetery. After a brief memorial service outside the gates, a delegation of three gold star mothers and two veterans was formally denied entrance. One vet tried to charge the gates, shouting: "Those are my brothers in there." Another, furious, threw his plastic M-16 at the gates; it shattered into pieces. A later visit was more successful. Some 300 veterans marched to Arlington single file, five yards apart, dropping wreaths on a knoll inside the cemetery. As they knelt for a moment of silence, three memorial rifle shots rang out at a nearby funeral...
...their number were really Viet Nam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof of service at their campsite on the Mall. Veterans turned in 900 DD-214 forms, which attested to their service in Viet Nam. One vet offered his glass eye as testimony, and another a used return ticket from Viet Nam. The evidence also included 200 piasters, a receipt from the Steam and Cream Massage Parlor in Bien Hoa, a membership card from Madame Binh's Hot Shop Parlor, a Chieu Hoi safe-conduct pass for Viet...
...Dollums (D-Calif.)-saying that he was a veteran but not one that had served in Vietnam-heaved his good conduct medal over the fence. One World War II vet tossed away a life-time membership card in the V. F. W. for what he called "the group's sympathy with...
...Today's vet activities included more guerrilla theatre "search and destroy missions" and lobbying, but number of vets expressed increasing frustration in talks with Congressmen and Senators. "They just aren't listening to us and when they do, it's with a political motive-they refuse to lay themselves on the line," said Joe Campbell, former Marine from Detroit...
WASHINGTON, April 20-Kneeling quietly, their heads bowed and hands folded reverently, over 300 Vietnam Veterans Against the War joined a Gold Star Mother and a vet representative in laying two wreaths today in Arlington National Cemetery...