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30. "I’ve lived the literal meaning of the 'land of the free' and 'home of the brave.' It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest."
President-Elect Donald Trump’s controversial Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is a war veteran, double Ivy Leaguer, a two-time Bronze Star recipient – and is covered in tattoos.
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is a 1994 American documentary film made by Freida Lee Mock.It explores the life of American artist Maya Lin, whose best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. [2] The film won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, which was in contrast to previous war memorials. [2] The memorial was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated in November 1982. [18] According to Lin, her intention was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the pain caused by the war and its many casualties.
David Thai was born Thái Thọ Hoàng [8] on January 30, 1956, in Saigon, South Vietnam, where his family lived in a home on Tôn Đản street.As a young teenager on the streets of Saigon, when he wasn't in school, Hoàng often acted as a mediator between the American G.I.s stationed in Saigon who were in search of drugs, and the Bình Xuyên, an independent military group during the time of ...
The orange reflectors mean something, he told his friend, the toxic Agent Orange defoliant troops were exposed to in Vietnam. "Tom knows exactly why he put that there," Miller said. Miller ...
Journalist David Halberstam paid tribute to Burrows in the 1997 book Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina: [18] I must mention Larry Burrows in particular. To us younger men who had not yet earned reputations, he was a sainted figure. He was a truly beautiful man, modest, graceful, a star who never behaved like one.
To portray the major ethnic groups that were represented in the ranks of U.S. combat personnel that served in Vietnam, the statue's three men are purposely identifiable as Latino American (left), European American (center), and African American (right). These three figures were based on seven actual young men, of which two (the Caucasian ...