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Thousands Brave the Cold
to Salute Delco's Vets
MEDIA, PA - NOVEMBER, 2017 - The annual Veteran's Day Parade
in Media has long been one of the finest showings of patriotism
and respect the country has to offer. Widely recognized for its
acknowledgment of veterans long passed and those still in service,
thousands gathered along State Street to wave to the procession of
local high school marching bands, participating vets of all military
arms, local legislators and first responders.
Featured Guest Speakers: Maureen Robinson, a captain in the Army Nurse
Corps., who served two tours in the Vietnam War, and her son Mark Robinson,
whom she rescued, adopted and brought back to the United States.
Following her service in Vietnam, Robinson joined a 13-month tour for
former Army nurses who were Vietnam vets, and while serving she met a
3-year-old boy, born among the ranks of the Montagnards, our greatest allies
in the war, who continued to pay for their alliance with Americans. Robinson
became very attached to the child, who was born Dinh Nit, who suffered
from extreme malnutrition. She asked him if he would like to go back to the
United States with her ...
Mark Robinson now calls Maureen his "mother, hero and your captain."
A restaurateur from Pittsburgh, Mark Robinson, 50, said he is "living
the American dream thanks to one extraordinary nurse. She taught me that
it is not what you have, but who you have and what you fill your life with
everyday. If you fill your life with hate, you will only have suffering, pain and
sickness, regardless of all the good around you." He finished on a high note,
before embracing his mother with a hug, "If you fill yourself with love every
single day, you will find that you are the light, the force, the cure for all the
suffering, pain and sickness." *

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