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In honor of Veterans Day, a documentary recounting the Vietnam War and the stories of veterans will be screened again Saturday at the Library Center in Springfield. Larry Rottmann was deployed to ...
Robert Yott is compiling stories from Southern Tier Vietnam War veterans for a book timed with next year's 50th anniversary of the end of the war. Calling all Vietnam veterans: Bath historian ...
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...
The Veterans History Project commemorated its 10th anniversary through a host of various events and initiatives, including a commemorative anniversary event. [20] The featured speaker for this event was James H. Billington, the 13th Librarian of Congress, who called upon Americans to collect the stories of veterans on September 29th, 2010. [21]
Vietnam in HD (known as Vietnam Lost Films outside the US) is a 6-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 8 to November 11, 2011 on the History Channel. From the same producers as WWII in HD , the program focuses on the firsthand experiences of thirteen Americans during the Vietnam War .
May 26—If any good came from the Vietnam War, if it taught us anything at all, the lesson was never to blame soldiers for bad political decisions. Support today for men and women in military ...
The Virtual Wall is an online Vietnam War memorial. The website opened on March 23, 1997 and is run by the not-for-profit organization, www.VirtualWall.org Ltd. The Virtual Wall has a separate memorial page for each casualty remembered. Each memorial page may contain one or more photographs, remembrances, graphics of military unit patches and ...
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. [1]