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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 ...
Around 50 local veterans and survivors of Vietnam and other wars gathered Friday, March 29 on the anniversary at the Texas Panhandle War Memorial in Amarillo to honor those veterans who never came ...
Nearly 60,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War, [9] and 3,417 of them were from Texas. [10] At a reading of the names of fallen veterans held in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium at the LBJ Library, newspaper reporter and Vietnam war correspondent Joe Galloway explained the purpose of the Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument is to "encourage hometowns across America to go all out to welcome Vietnam ...
Meeting of US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Vietnamese minister of foreign affairs Phạm Bình Minh in 2019. Formal relations between the United States and Vietnam were initiated in the nineteenth century under former American president Andrew Jackson, but relations soured after the United States refused to protect the Kingdom of Vietnam from a French invasion.
The remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot who died while serving in the Vietnam War were personally flown home by the man's son — 52 years after the two saw each other for the last time.
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Vietnam veterans suffered from PTSD in unprecedented numbers, as many as 15.2% of Vietnam veterans, because the U.S. military had routinely provided heavy psychoactive drugs, including amphetamines, to American servicemen, which left them unable to process adequately their traumas at the time. [95]
Wawro is a distinguished research professor and the Director of Military History at the University of North Texas. His new book focuses on America’s strategy in the war and the human toll.