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| Vietnam veteran Werner Trei battling brain cancer wants to become U.S. citizen |
| 2019-05-04 |
| LONGMONT, Colo. - Werner Trei is accustomed to being on a man on a mission. This time around, the decorated Vietnam War veteran is on a mission to gain U.S. citizenship. The 71-year-old said his family moved from Germany to Lincoln, Nebraska, when he was just 2 years old. After he graduated from high school, he was drafted into the Vietnam War, defending a country in which he could not vote and returning home with three Bronze Stars. "Every man that ever went out with me I brought back. Never lost a man. I can be proud of that," Trei said. He has qualified for green-card status over the years and was under the impression that once he served in the Army, he would gain citizenship. But it never happened. Now. Trei has brain cancer and is in hospice care. His caregivers at The Peaks Care Center in Longmont are reaching out to Gov. Jared Polis and Sen. Cory Gardner to help him finally become a citizen. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 This nation in the past has always kept the battlefields at arms length so that the ones the soldiers loved and were protecting would not experience the horrors of the battlefield. The above video from the TV series The Pacific was right on when capturing the return of soldiers to a sheltered society. The soldiers of WWII had only one thing to learn, to be the best killing machines in the world, nothing more and nothing less. Like Sledge said, they got pretty dam good at it. It was so obvious to them how disconnected the US civilians back home were from an understanding of living hell. And to them that was mission accomplished... |
| Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-05-04 23:03 |
| #3 A fair comment, Phaick Uneretle6310. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-04 22:07 |
| #2 Some soldiers just don't do well at handling pens and pencils. |
| Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-05-04 20:48 |
| #1 I hope they can make it happen for him. But really, like everything else one has to fill out the form and turn it in. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-04 09:23 |