I speak about my decision to leave the GOP in 2016. I opposed the war, which made me a traitor in the eyes of the Party. I was a Republican when President Bush asked Congress for the authority to invade Afghanistan. Last year, Afghanistan passed Vietnam’s record. Until recently, the war in Indochina was America’s most protracted sustained military engagement. America wants to forget the nightmare in Indochina that started on November 1, 1955, and raged for seventeen and a half years. There was a sense of grief about Vietnam which faded to numbness. If there was any relief in the unilateral declaration from Ford, we did not see it expressed in America. It is the war America tries to forget, even to this day. None of those things happened in the wake of the President’s words. Usually, when wars end, there are celebrations in the street, big parades, and veterans who fought bravely are bestowed honors before admiring crowds. “The War in Vietnam is finished as far as America is concerned,” the President told the audience. On this date in 1975, President Gerald Ford gave a speech at Tulane University and declared the Vietnam War was over for America.
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