I WENT ALMOST 45 YEARS WITH FEW PEOPLE EVEN KNOWING I HAD BEEN TO WAR OR WAS A VETEREN AT ALL.

I realized landing at Travis airforce base in California was a mistake by the men in charge of the military, the hate we recieved was life lasting. Riding on the bus from the air base to the post was awful, we had no idea that we were hated and blamed for doing our duty. We we were warned to not wear military clothes , which that was all I had.

After checking out and getting paid my back pay they released us to go home. My plane to New Orleans didn’t leave until the next day, i needed clothes so I took taxi downtown San Francisco to buy and spend sometime looking around. My walking made me thrirsty so I stopped into a bar to get a beer, as I was only barely 19 , i was refused my beer which turned into a fight with police giving me a black eye with bloody lips. I was rescued by a officer with higher rank and taken to the airport under protest from the fighting policemen. (i wrote the full story of this a few years ago) My dress geens were soiled bloody and a mess but the officer took me to a store and I was able to change into soicalist democrat clothes. (civilian clothes lol)

I was sick for over ten years with fevers every time the weather changed, we could never discover why, but the VA refused me and our hospital bills equaled 34,000 dollars. This inturn made getting a VA house loan impossiable.It took 10 years for us to get over my sickness and my nightmares. The nightmares were so bad that my wife would leave the bedroom once I started mumbling in my sleep. I once had to pay 950 dollars in Redman California for damaging a motel room. My wife woulld become angry with me for not standing when they would asked all militay men to be honored, most people had no idea that I served at all.

Before my run in 2018 for the US Senate seat against Senator Wicker a teacher or professor teaching at Southern Miss came to a meet and greet seeking me out. He wanted to know why I wasn’t displaying my time as a soldier, i explained my deep hate for my countrymen on how they treated soldiers coming home from war, that I would never forgive them. His responce was, it matters not what they think, you owe it to the men that died and were wounded to hold them up to the honor they deserved. From that moment on until I die, i want the country and the world to know of the great men that fought for the country.

MY hat displays my purple heart , my 101st airborne unit and my time in Vietnam. I proudly wear it where ever I go.

MY MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISANA COUNTRYMEN GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO THANK ME FOR MY SERVICE, MY WEEKEND IN WASHINGTON DC I WAS MET WITH PEOPLE THAT DID THE SAME. GOD BLESS ALL