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Because of him, the dogs now have food and fresh water every day. When he adopts a stray dog in his community, it takes the 78-year-old Vietnam veteran back to the times when he looked after his ...
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer".
Yott, who lives in Bath, is combining those two interests to put together a compilation of personal stories from Vietnam War veterans in advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1975 end of the ...
At 22 years of age, he was assigned to the 377th Air Police Squadron at Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon, Vietnam as a sentry dog handler. He was paired with a German Shepherd named Nemo A534. He had been in country for at least 5 months when the December 1966 attack on Tan Son Nhut AB occurred.
Jerry Michael Tate Shriver (24 September 1941 – 10 June 1974), also known by his nickname "Mad Dog", was a master sergeant in the United States Army who served in Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) in 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 ...
Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam is a book of selected correspondence published in 1989. Its genesis was a controversial newspaper column of 20 July 1987 in which Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Bob Greene asked whether there was any truth to the folklore that Vietnam veterans had been spat upon when they returned from the war zone.
The museum has also enshrined the stories of the local veterans in a book, “Stories of Vietnam: Interviews with our Vietnam Era Veterans.” The book is available for $10 while supplies last.