"I FOR ONE AM VERY PROUD OF ALL THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO LIVED THROUGH THE HORRORS OF WAR IN VIETNAM AND ESPECIALLY PROUD OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN ACTION. WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER, THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY, FOR OUR LIBERTY AND FREEDOM, PROTECTING ALL AMERICANS AT HOME. GOD BLESS THEIR FAMILIES FOR THE SORROW, SUFFERING AND THE PAIN THEY, TOO, ENDURED, NEVER KNOWING IF THEIR SONS OR DAUGHTERS WOULD RETURN HOME SAFELY. MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED AND FALLEN SOLDIERS. I PRAY THERE MAY BE AN END TO ALL WAR IN THE FUTURE, SO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN MAY GROW UP TO LIVE IN PEACE. FOR THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM, LET US NEVER FORGET THE MANY SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT THEMSELVES IN HARMS WAY, SACRIFICING THEIR LIVES FOR US. MY WIFE JAN AND I BOTH FEEL DEEPLY GRATEFUL AND TREMENDOUSLY THANKFUL FOR OUR VIETNAM VETERANS, WE GIVE THEM HONOR AND WE SALUTE THEM. THEY SURELY DESERVE GREAT RESPECT FOR ALL THEY HAVE DONE FOR OUR COUNTRY. IT IS WITH DEEP ADMIRATION WE REMEMBER OUR DECEASED SOLDIERS AND LIVING VIETNAM VETERANS TODAY. WE HOLD THESE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN, AND THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED IN SUBSEQUENT CONFLICTS, IN HIGH ESTEEM AND WE SEND OUR HEARTFELT THANKS AND LOVE TO THEM ALL GOD BLESS AMERICA, MICKEY ROONEY/ JAN ROONEY"