After 50 years, the state of Utah held a ceremony at the State Capitol to honor the more than 47,000 men and women who served during the conflict.
For those who made it home, it was a day to celebrate and remember.
"One of the biggest changes I saw when I came back home was the kids that didn't go to war were still kids and we'd become old men," he said. "It's kind of an emotional day. It meant we were being praised for once when we came home," Howland said. For many Vietnam veterans, the homecoming was far from warm.
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