U.S. military medals sent to the White House by veterans as a measure of protest over President Ford’s 1974 Vietnam Reconciliation Program – a program created to provide clemency to Vietnam era draft evaders and military deserters. |
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To heal the nation, around the same time
he pardoned Richard Nixon, he offered amnesty to the people who had gone
to Canada to dodge the draft. He wrapped his arms around the country,
and said, “Listen, we need to heal. Let’s move on.” --Steve Ford |