In Service to America, Profile 15: Corporal Peter Bergeron USMC, from Crown Hill to Vietnam and back

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In August, Bergeron returned to the U.S. to a military hospital in Portsmouth. He hitch-hiked back to Nashua sporting his uniform and supported by a cane. Having a U.S. military uniform, and being hobbled by a cane didn’t get him much respect. He explained how trying that journey was: “At that time, members of the military weren’t held in very high regard. I didn’t get a lot of rides… but I had a lot of stuff thrown at me.”