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William "Bill" Daniel Ehrhart (born September 30, 1948) is an American poet, writer, scholar and Vietnam veteran. Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry ." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts , said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir , is "the best single, unadorned, gut-felt telling of one ...
Mason's poem "The Wall Within" was read at the 1984 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. [1] and has the distinction of being the only American work of poetry on display at the war memorial in Hanoi. The author of four books, his poetry related to his experiences as a captain in the United States Army during the ...
This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]
During the Vietnam War and in the following twelve months, 235 Medals of Honor were awarded and since 1978 a further 33 awards have been presented. Of the total of 268 awards, 179 were to the US Army, 15 to the US Navy, 58 to the USMC and 14 to the USAF. [3] These totals do not include the award to the Vietnam Unknown Soldier.
The Kennedy Middle School in Natick hosted its annual Veterans Breakfast on Thursday, welcoming 27 area veterans to speak with students. Veterans Day: War heroes share stories, poems with students ...
HUBBARDSTON - A new memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War was officially unveiled to the public during the town's Memorial Day observances. The names of more than 200 men and women who served ...
Regardless, the U.S. government officially refers to all as "Vietnam-era veterans." [2] In the United States, the term "Vietnam veteran" is not typically used in relation to members of the People's Army of Vietnam or the Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front) due to the United States' alliance with South Vietnamese forces. [3]
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 ...