Thanks again Tigress

Vietnam vets welcomed back four decades later
By Martha Quillin


Tom Rhyne, of Stanfield, NC gets a hug from Sara Butner, of Winston-Salem after the National Anthem.



CONCORD -- James Gooch remembers some of his fellow soldiers stopping on their way home from serving in Vietnam to buy new civilian clothes and throwing away or even burning their uniforms.

They didn’t want strangers to know where they had been.

Saturday, thousands of them proudly displayed their former military affiliations on ball caps, T-shirts or leather vests as they walked around inside the Charlotte Motor Speedway complex for the Vietnam Veterans Homecoming Celebration. Now, strangers came up to thank them.

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