D.V.A. issues list of ships with Agent Orange Exposure

The Retired Enlisted Association Newsletter is running a listing it has recieved from the Department of Veterans Affairs this week outlining which ships are now considered to have been exposed to Agent Orange during Viet Nam.  Here is the listing taken directly from their newsletter today.
“VA Issues List of Ships with Agent Orange Exposure-The Department [...]

The US Abandonment of the Hmong – How easily we forget those who saved our lives!

Danang, Vietnam – Many of us may recall the peace loving, and US loyal peoples of Vietnam.  There are many stories that have been told of how these wonderful and such courageous folks fought with us, alongside us, protected us, and died with and for us.  Some of us remember them as the Montagnards.
The Hmong [...]

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Robert L. Howard dies at 70

By T. Rees Shapiro Washington Post
Robert L. Howard, 70, one of the Vietnam War’s most highly decorated servicemen who received the Medal of Honor for leading fellow soldiers out of an ambush and fending off more than 250 troops during a two-day siege deep in enemy territory, died Dec. 23 of pancreatic cancer at a [...]

Former Former Monsanto Exec. Appointed to the Head of the F.D.A.!

Michael R. Taylor, J.D., was appointed FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods. This was announced on the FDA’s website the day after the earthquake in Haiti. Michael Taylor is a former top executive, lawyer and lobbyist with biotech giant Monsanto Co. He has rotated in and out of law firms, Monsanto, the USDA and FDA.

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Beyond Vietnam – A Time To Break The Silence

Martin Luther King Jr and the Vietnam War

Is Vietnams Dirty Little Secret True for our New War Too?

Gordon Duff, Veterans Today senior editor explores lying about the Vietnam War as a way of life. When some of those who “served” in Vietnam became old enough to gain power, hiding much of the truth of the war was critical to keep questions down. Everything bad in Vietnam was blamed on minorities, “bad eggs” and draftees. This is total hogwash. Vietnam was our most corrupt war in history with a Mafia within our military stealing, not millions, but billions in food, weapons, uniforms, supplies of every kind, often leaving troops in the field without food, weapons, medicine and supplies.

Company of the Year? Monsanto!

What a slap in the face!  What an insult!  What a display of ignorance.  What little to no compassion, let alone admission of guilt to the war crimes this company was involved in.  No, they were never convicted – because they settled out of court like Dow and the rest of the criminals who created, [...]

The Lives They Lived

Peg Mullen: Cornfield Protest
By Sara Corbett The New York Times
Peg Mullen was at her sewing machine making a new set of drapes when the men showed up with their message. It was February 1970 in Black Hawk County, Iowa — a bright Saturday morning on the empty rural road where she lived. [...]

Cheney Certainly Didn't 'Dither' During Vietnam – He Hauled Ass

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Cheney Certainly Didn’t ‘Dither’ During Vietnam – He Hauled Ass

Where is Dick Cheney’s shame? And where is the shame of the people who are supposed to be covering him?
Dick Cheney is walking around demanding that we place our troops in harm’s way like a veteran who begged for combat, [...]

Wolf in Sheeps clothing – trying at least

Monsanto’s Agent Orange: The Persistent Ghost from the Vietnam War
I was informed by a fellow writer and Marine brother about what’s happening with the lobbyists in Iowa, the US Senate battle in that state, and the lobbyist’s relationship with Monsanto – to some, Monsanto is a gift from heaven, promising and it seems, delivering to [...]

Veterans Day, Never Forget, Never

With the Sea and Time, Alone Bob Higgins
I remember being twenty one in August of 65, the week of my birthday, and standing alone on a hill near Chu Lai, looking out over the only road and admiring the low angle textures of the light on the South China Sea. The gulls [...]

Could the U.S. have won in Vietnam?

The Surprising Lessons of VietnamUnraveling the mysteries of Vietnam may prevent us from repeating its mistakes.
By Evan Thomas and John Barry | NEWSWEEK
Stanley Karnow is the author of Vietnam: A History, generally regarded as the standard popular account of the Vietnam War. This past summer, Karnow, 84, picked up the phone to hear the [...]

World just learning mystery of Vietnam-era Marine hero

By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers - On the morning of Aug. 12, 1968, amid a sweep through Quang Nam Province, Lance Cpl. Kenneth Worley awoke to shouts: Grenade! With little time to think, Worley threw himself on the grenade and absorbed its blast. He died. His colleagues lived. Worley received the Medal of Honor. But [...]

Book Review: Distant War, Recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by Marc Phillip Yablonka

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Distant War (Paperback)
By (author) Marc Phillip Yablonka

by Karen St. John, Staff Writer 
      Like many of us, the Vietnam War became teenager Marc Phillip Yablonka’s war.  The son of a holocaust survivor and U.S. WW II veteran, Yablonka watched as the war dragged on and Saigon fell in 1975.  For decades falling the collapse, [...]

NIXON & KISSINGER: Betrayal in Vietnam

NORTH VIETNAMESE TAKEOVER OF VIETNAM PART OF NIXON, KISSINGER PLAN TO RIG THE 1972 ELECTION
A STORY OF DISHONOR AND BETRAYAL
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Declassified documents and tapes now show every single word on how the Vietnam War was ended was a lie.  Henry Kissinger and President Nixon openly planned the fall of Vietnam to [...]

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is fighting for Agent Orange care for Viet Nam veterans

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is doing all she can to get full coverage for all Viet Nam veterans who have been affected by Agent Orange.
She could use your help. 
If you would like to help her, here is her website address and the article concerning Agent Orange care she is trying to secure for Viet Nam vets.
     

War, Art, and the Veteran

From Meg Jones of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel – Dick Olsen volunteered to go to Vietnam because he knew it would make him a better artist. The pictures Olsen, now 73, painted and sketched ended up at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. Now, Olsen’s art is among those included in an exhibit of [...]

Belated Honors For Vietnam Heroes

One army unit is being recognized for its valor during a 1970 rescue

By Michael E. Ruane
The North Vietnamese soldiers were so close that Pasqual Gutierrez could see their eyes and faces as they darted among the bunkers in front of him.  Bullets banged off the armor of his tank. Rocket-propelled grenades had just [...]

Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years'

In today’s Politics Daily there is a powerful piece about Max Cleland. The former senator was taken out by the Bushites in a particularly nasty race with Saxby Chambliss coming out the winner years ago.  The loss of his senate seat sent him into a tailspin at that time from which he is now recovering. 
His Viet Nam [...]

VIETNAM WAR: JOHNNY CASH: "DRIVE ON"

     

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