‘He was a good guy’ — Old soldiers in San Antonio reflect on National Vietnam War Veterans Day
, the shelter where Dembinsky has lived for 10 years, with an event co-hosted by Christus VNA Hospice.
Across town, another ceremony was held at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, led by JBSA’s commander, Brig. Gen. Caroline Miller. Vietnam veteran Robert “Spirit” Dembinsky is pictured during a breakfast Tuesday at Haven for Hope to mark National Vietnam War Veterans Day.Haven for Hope honored 77 veterans of all wars on its campus, including Dembinsky and Terry Cannon.
American involvement in the war began during the mid-1950s when the struggle between the partitioned former French colony’s northern and southern governments escalated, and U.S. military advisers arrived to shore up the south against communist guerillas backed by the north in 1955.
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