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Bob Wieland is a Vietnam War veteran who lost his legs to a mortar mine in 1969. After recovering from his injuries he was inspired to become a marathon participant. Over his lifetime he has finished many marathons, often taking multiple days to finish.
Missing in Action is a 1984 American action film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris.It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue.Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp ten years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War.
Norris was approached to make the film by Lance Hool, who had a script about American POWs in Vietnam. Norris was enthusiastic because he wanted to pay tribute to his brother Wieland. Vietnam films were not popular at the time, and Norris and Hool received numerous rejections. [4] Hool and Norris took the project to Cannon Films, who liked the ...
In 1970, Wieland was killed in the Vietnam War. His parents divorced when he was 16 years old, and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas, and then to Torrance, California, with his mother ...
Amid a housing crisis, Indian River County's Affordable Housing Committee meets only once every two months. It's time to speed up its pace.
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Norris is the younger brother of Chuck Norris (b. March 10, 1940), and Wieland Clyde Norris (1943–1970). During the Vietnam War, both Aaron and his older brother Wieland enlisted in the United States Army. [45] Wieland was killed in action in Vietnam in 1970. Norris has been married to Rebecca since 1981.
And it worries people like Marsha Four, who was a combat nurse in Vietnam and knows war trauma intimately. She eventually found purpose and solace running a veterans center in Philadelphia, before she retired last year to work with the Vietnam Veterans of America. Vietnam veterans like Four have their own struggles. But most of them served only ...