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Bullet riddled planes are returning to base at an alarming rate. Until now the planes have returned without incident but whatever is happening out there it seems to be heating up. I’ve also been talking to guys that are flying the gunships and they too are catching more ground fire. Some of the Marines are leaving and the Vietnamese Army is starting to take over some of the guard post positions. Is it possible that the war is drawing to a close? But how could that be when our planes are taking more ground fire? I’m getting more confused about the war as well as my participation in it.
February 20th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Self medicating wasn’t going to work for me. My hospital stay was over and I’m not going anywhere for the next nine months. This was the turning point in which I realized I have to either adapt to my surroundings or I’m going to loose it. Keeping myself busy and making my surroundings more suitable [...]
February 14th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
The sun was shining brightly at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on February 11, 2011 as Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented the Navy Cross and a Bronze Star for Valor to Vietnam Veteran, Marine Lance Corporal Ned E. Seath of Reed City, Michigan.
February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,History,Peace,Veteran Service Organizations,Vietnam War | Read More »
What makes the most fantastic and undocumented war-launching and war-prolonging lies credible are differences and prejudices, against others and in favor of our own. Without religious bigotry, racism, and patriotic jingoism, wars would be harder to sell.
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Civil War,Cold War,Gulf War,History,Korean Conflict,Vietnam War,World War I,World War II | Read More »
What do chickens, goats and a Caribou have in common? The chickens and goats were my traveling companions and Caribou was our ride to Danang. I was told I had five days to report to Danang and how to get there was up to me. So I hopped a flight out of Cam Ranh Bay [...]
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Four guys were killed when a rocket hit the chow hall. I don’t remember how many were wounded, that didn’t seem to matter. I can’t write home about the guys getting killed, that would be too upsetting. I need to say something humorous in my letters. Humor here seems to fill the gaps between absolute [...]
January 30th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
In Vietnam, some 35 years after the war, Agent Orange is still claiming victims. Used on a massive scale by the U.S. Army to prevent soldiers from hiding, this powerful herbicide permeated the ground. From encephalitis to congenital deformities and leukaemia, thousands of children are being born severely handicapped due to the chemical. From 1961 [...]
January 25th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Letters Home from Vietnam – Chapter 1, The Blackboard Jungle By Steve Crandall, Staff Writer January 21st 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of my return home from a one year tour in Vietnam. My mother saved all my letters I sent home of which I have read bits and pieces from time to time [...]
January 23rd, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
In Vietnam, 30 years after the war, Agent Orange is still claiming victims. Used on a massive scale by the US army to prevent Viet Cong soldiers from hiding, this powerful herbicide permeated the ground. From encephalitis to congenital deformities and leukaemia, thousands of children are being born severely handicapped due to the chemical. By [...]
January 20th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
HANOI, Vietnam — American veterans of the Vietnam War have helped the Communist country locate a mass grave of 81 of its soldiers who died in battle more than 40 years ago, the Vientnamese military said Wednesday. Authorities have dug up the bones of the North Vietnamese soldiers in the Central Highlands province of Kon [...]
January 19th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Len Aldis, Britian Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS) Len Aldis is a Brit who has worked hard for decades to bring the Agent Orange (AO) issue to the world’s attention. He is much loved in Vietnam. He publishes a quarterly newsletter on AO, Unexploded Ordances (UXOs) and related news about Vietnam. If you want to get [...]
January 19th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
It is Martin Luther King’s fearless speech against the Vietnam war in 1967 that should be used today, word for word, in regards to Americas present war and occupation of Afghanistan and likely set the stage for his assassination in April of 1968: Allen L Roland On the [...]
January 17th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Peace,Vietnam War | Read More »
Time Magazine called King’s anti-war speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.” Not much has changed with Time and the Post, who beat the war drums today for a strike against Iran and the [...]
January 17th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
“Now, I’ve chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal,” said Dr. King. Sermon was delivered at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on [...]
January 15th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Retired Master Sergeant LeRoy Foster is haunted by the job that launched his 20-year career in the US Air Force—spraying herbicides along perimeter fences and fuel pipelines at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. This duty seemed inconsequential, field maintenance work done amid B-52 bombers thundering in and out to refuel for bombing raids over [...]
January 14th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Violence and lies of the Vietnam War echo through the decades with deadly poison; now we slowly clean up. The US Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Defence organized a conference on January 13 to seek ways to tackle pollution at Danang International Airport in central Vietnam. Participants in the conference discussed plans [...]
January 13th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Dr Martin Luther King Jr speech in Harlem, New York “A Time To Break Silence.” Time Magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that “King had diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.” Philadelphia, Pa January 2011—The antitheses of one man’s [...]
January 11th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Dear Friends, After I sent out the obituary from BBC last week,I was reminded by several of you that the Vang Pao that many new first-hand was quite different than the exiled hero some have portrayed him as. What follows are several first-hand accounts by a long time activist who spent many years in Laos [...]
January 10th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Vang Pao, the former general and leader of his Hmong ethnic group in Laos, has died in exile in the US, aged 81 From the BBC He had been in hospital for about 10 days before his death late on Thursday. As a young man, he had fought against the Japanese during World War II, [...]
January 8th, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
- This is dedicated to the brave Turkish and American martyrs on the Mavi Marmara, May 31, 2010, and to the 34 murdered American sailors on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 – all victims of an unrepentant criminal state – Israel. – By James Petras, Israel Crimes on the High Seas On June 8, [...]
January 2nd, 2011 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
The power of music to inspire has never been so eloquently illustrated as by John Lennon as he spoke for peace in the face of 1,000,000s dead, maimed and traumatized in the Vietnam War; efforts that engaged President Nixon to attempt to deport such a dangerous man. Even now, the music of John Lennon inspires people [...]
December 22nd, 2010 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
The rain sheeted down; time washed away. I looked down from the rooftop in Saigon where, more than a generation ago, in the wake of the longest war of modern times, I had watched silent, sullen streets awash. The foreigners were gone, at last. Through the mist, like little phantoms, four children ran into view, [...]
December 4th, 2010 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
This year, my honoring veterans on Veterans Day includes honoring the families and descendants of Vietnam Veterans, especially those who fought in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965. And, telling their secrets. Sp5/Medic Daniel Torrez had his own that he kept from his family. Sergeant Freddie Owens knew what it was. This year, Sp5/Medic Daniel Torrez’s son would learn just exactly what secrets his dad had kept hidden all these years.
November 10th, 2010 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
The 16 U.S. airmen of the 1st Combat Evaluation Group were stationed atop a 5,600-foot mountain that towered above the Laotian jungle. Before daybreak on March 11, 1968, the first rocket dropped. Then grenades were hurled and gunshots came whizzing by. North Vietnamese soldiers had infiltrated the Air Force’s secret “Lima Site 85” – and few Americans would leave alive.
September 21st, 2010 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Support the Troops,Vietnam War | Read More »
Young American men were drafted into the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and yes, the United States Marine Corp too. (Note: Corp is pronounced CORE as in apple core – our Commander in Chief once said “corpse” or “corpsemen” instead of “Corp” when referring to Navy Corpmen.”) during the Vietnam war.
September 11th, 2010 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
Veterans Today Becoming a True Hub of Information for Veterans and Civilians The news as demonstrated by another news item that has gotten legs from what we here at VeteransToday have been doing http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/randy-white-fights-to-expose-cancer-cluster-near-frederick-maryland/19588039?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Frandy-white-fights-to-expose-cancer-cluster-near-frederick-maryland%2F19588039day Father Fights to Expose Cancer Cluster in Dave Thier Contributor AOL News (Aug. 21) — Two and a half years ago, [...]
August 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
- “[We understood the Iraq War] was going to be different, and that it was going to be house-to-house and urban combat. And that type of warfare requires a surge, if you will, and the ability to have mental- health-care treatment available, closer to the front, and also available when they come back home. The [...]
August 18th, 2010 | Posted in 9/11,AfPak,Iraq War,Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
WHERE HAVE ALL THE VIETNAM WAR (DRAFT) WAR PROTESTORS GONE? By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans Today Where have all the Vietnam War (DRAFT) protestors gone? I have not seen them around for the past 35 years, could it be that many of them, especially the male baby boomers and their girlfriends, were really [...]
August 16th, 2010 | Posted in Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam July 23, 2010 Yesterday, I arrived in Vietnam and I was honored to be here to help celebrate the 15th anniversary of the normalization of our diplomatic relations. The day before, I was in Seoul, my third visit to Korea as [...]
July 25th, 2010 | Posted in Korean Conflict,Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
- WMDs and the War on Terror: Lies that won’t die – By Jim Staro [This is an edited version of a piece that appeared in After Downing Street] Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) has become the new mainstream term of condemnation this century, for others, said to be connected to criminal terrorist acts offeringreasons for invasions [...]
July 23rd, 2010 | Posted in 9/11,AfPak,Iraq War,Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
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