George Terry was wearing his Vietnam veterans’ baseball cap while delivering meals for Manteca Unified Nutritional Services at Nile Garden School when a staff member said a young boy wanted to ask him a question.“Are you a real veteran?” the boy asked the 68-year-old Terry.Terry answered that he was.“Thank you very much,” responded the boy, who then broke out into a broad smile.Ron Cruz was having a spa installed at his home. After a company representative knocked on his door he asked if the pickup truck in front of the house with the Purple Heart license plate was his.When he replied in the affirmative the 69-year-old Cruz was then asked what branch of service. Cruz’s reply of the Army prompted the man to say in jest that he guessed that was OK even though he was a Marine.“Welcome home,” the Marine then told Cruz.That stands in stark contrast to the America that greeted the two fast friends and fellow graduates of Manteca High’s Class of 1965 when they returned from fighting in Vietnam.Terry recalled how soldiers made a beeline to the nearest restroom to change out of their military uniforms and switch into civilian clothes after arriving stateside at airports to avoid war protestors confronting them with taunts of “baby killers” and even spitting on them.