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VietnamEverybody Loves Lt. Dan - Gary SinisePublished: May 22, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Gary Sinise and The Lt. Dan Band headline the Rolling Thunder XXV Tribute Concert, Sat., May 26, in Washington
Army Spc. 4 Leslie Sabo Awarded Medal of Honor Posthumously in White House Ceremony on May 16Published: May 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Loaded with gear, infantryman Leslie Sabo stands on a mountainside in Vietnam. (Courtesy of Sabo family)
Leslie H. Sabo Jr., the nation's newest Medal of Honor recipient, died in a Cambodian jungle on May 10, 1970, after a daylong battle …
The Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Kicks Off at Annual Memorial Day Ceremony at The WallPublished: May 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm
The Department of Defense 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Vietnam War is slated to get its official kickoff at the annual Memorial Day ceremony held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
The decade-long commemoration is under the direction …
DVD Review - My Vietnam, Your IraqPublished: May 18, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Takes viewers inside the families of Vietnam War combat veterans whose children are or have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan
Review - Vietnam AlbumPublished: May 18, 2012 at 6:07 pm
A picture book of never-before published Vietnam War photos cleverly interlaced with quotes, snippets from oral histories and firsthand accounts
Review - The M1 Carbine, by Leroy Thompson; and The M16, by Gordon RottmanPublished: May 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Both books from Osprey Publishing detail the guns and their roles in Vietnam
Review - U.S. MACV-SOG ReconnaissancePublished: May 18, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Told with the authority of a Vietnam vet and backed by a wealth of declassified photos, many taken on missions
Review - Black Ops Vietnam: The Operational History of MACVSOGPublished: May 18, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Offers a wealth of little-known information about this shadowy world in Vietnam
Review - In Country: Remembering the Vietnam WarPublished: May 17, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Essential bits of the warrior's reality for a stunningly vivid portrait of the Vietnam War
My War - James John MagnerPublished: May 17, 2012 at 3:37 pm
As an artist, I understood that I would have to wade the rivers and face death to get beyond surface appearances
In remembrance of combat photographer Horst Faas, 1933-2012Published: May 17, 2012 at 2:42 pm
In 2008, Horst Faas appeared at the Newseum in Washington to pay tribute to the photographers who went down in a helicopter over Laos. (Photo: Don North)In 1965 as a green kid with a $30 35mm Yashika and a fixed …
Tapes Give New Voice to JFK's Vietnam DoubtPublished: May 15, 2012 at 5:14 pm
The last 45 hours of more than 248 hours of declassified conversations of President John F. Kennedy, taped in the White House shortly before his death, reveal a president worried about where the war in Vietnam was headed. On the …
Letters from Readers - June 2012Published: May 15, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Those Beautiful Evil Eyes
Reading "Rescue in Death Valley" (April) relating to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163, the "Evil Eyes," took me back to Aug. 8, 1966. I was a platoon sergeant with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd …
CH-21 Shawnee, the Flying BananaPublished: May 15, 2012 at 3:20 pm
The Shawnee troop transport was first deployed to Vietnam in December 1961
Going HomePublished: May 14, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Just as he'd done on hundreds of medevac missions, this Huey pilot tried to not look back when he left the Vietnam War
Requiem for a Vietnam War Reporter - George Esper, 1932-2012Published: May 09, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Esper doggedly covered the war from 1965 to its end, as North Vietnamese soldiers shuttered his Saigon AP bureau
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