LEWISTOWN — It wasn’t the reading of the proclamation that made the moment feel significant — it was the silence that settled just before it. In that pause, the Mifflin County Commissioners and those gathered seemed to acknowledge the long road Vietnam veterans have walked since returning home. On Thursday morning, when the commissioners declared March 29 as “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day,” the words carried the weight of years: years of service, years of sacrifice and years of waiting for the gratitude they deserved. In Mifflin County, at least, that gratitude finally ...