War Veterans
Vietnam Vets and Vaccine Vets have a lot in common. Society rejects their sacrifice. Why?
I think at this time in history, we all need to think deeply about that period in history when young men came home from war. Injured, used goods, harmed, forever changed. I’m speaking about the Vietnam War and the horrible greeting vets go on arrival home. The late 60s and early 70s.
“I remember feeling like, what could I do to acknowledge them (crowds greeting their convoy), and I just gave the peace signal, and instead of getting return peace fingers, I got the middle finger.” - Wounded 21 year old Steven A. Wowwk, First Calvary, Army Division.
I had quite a different childhood. I grew up on a farmstead, no electricity, no running water. I grew up amongst many American draft dodgers who’d found refuge and community in Northern Canada. As a young kid, I was tuned into the politics of the day and how society didn’t stand behind either those who refused to fight or those who came back from doing their duty. And I’ve always carried within me the question - Why? Why reject both? Both those who fought and those who refused. Why?
I see the same dynamic happening with vaccine veterans. Those injured, harmed after taking the vaccine. They are the new Vietnam Vets. Told to go hide away, shut up, be quiet - a refusal of society to acknowledge them, despite how they did what they were told and took the vaccine “for the team”. Today, the vaccine vets are personas non-grata. And again, the question comes to the surface, why? Why when they did the right thing? Why aren’t their injuries, their wounds recognized, given attention, embraced, compensated for and even may I say, learned from? Why?
I think there is a curious cultural psychological mechanism at work. We tend to not be able to hold two different beliefs inside at the same time. The belief that the vaccine is pure, works, noble, clean, our crown and glory, a fix and the other belief that it harms, it injures and kills and it isn’t as clean, as glorious or as total a fix as we think.
And so we cling to our pure version, the hero vision. And we won’t hear anyone speak bad of this belief we cling to. We won’t stand to see the sight of veterans or their injuries. For they remind us we are wrong.
"Society as a whole was certainly unable and unwilling to receive these men with the support and understanding they needed. The most common experiences of rejection were not explicit acts of hostility but quieter, sometimes more devastating forms of withdrawal, suspicion, and indifference." - Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
The parallels between both categories of VVs is stark. Vietnam Vets and Vaccine Vets.
Now you might be sitting there shaking your head, saying, “What vaccine vets?” “There has been no harm. It’s all psychosomatic.” But you are wrong and just digging in as I described above. The evidence IS stark. And like how we denied the vets of Vietnam acknowledgment of their harms, their injuries, any just compensation - we do the same for vaccine vets. A general figure of 1 in 2,000 is seriously hospitalized or killed from COVID vaccination. That’s where the figure is settling.
Every morning for over a year now, I get up and check a few feeds I’ve set up, notifying me of new notices of vaccine death and injury. Trust me, it is happening and it tears at me that we don’t acknowledge even these people who faithfully followed orders and did what they thought was the right thing to do. You can debate all you want about the numbers but that we aren’t compensating anyone, that we aren’t even acknowledging our vaccine vets - is a national and international tragedy and a pox on our houses.
You can keep turning your mind and your head away. But eventually, the truth WILL come home to roost. Either through someone in your family and friends being injured or just through time, like the Vietnam Vets, we realize the error of our ways. How scared we truly are/were and that was why we didn’t deal with this problem.
I’ll leave you with just one story of 1,000s. Marsha Gee. ICU nurse. One of the first to get vaccinated. She fought for us. Since her vaccination, she’s unable to work. She experiences many symptoms and the worst of the worst is that the medical establishment won’t recognize her, her suffering. Read her story.
Could be climate change? If you don’t believe in vaccine injury and harm - watch this. Just facts, clearly communicated.