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The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African-American soldiers in the US military up to that point. [2] Though comprising 11% of the US population in 1967, African Americans were 16.3% of all draftees. [3] During the period of the Vietnam War, well over half of African American draft registrants were found ineligible for military ...
Both numbers are comparable to PTSD rates for soldiers who served in the Gulf War in the 1990s (approximately 12%) and the current conflicts in the Middle East (PTSD diagnoses estimated between 11 ...
Milton Lee Olive III (November 7, 1946 – October 22, 1965) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic action in the Vietnam War when at the age of 18, Olive sacrificed his life to save others by falling on a grenade. In so doing so he became the first ...
When Adair started working at the South Bridge Street cemetery in 2004, he first learned about six USCT soldiers buried there. That number grew to eight, then to 16, and now at 18.
Ronald L. Haeberle (born c. 1941) is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up. [2] On November 21, 1969, the day after the ...
Saigon Execution[a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém[b][c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon. The photograph was published extensively by ...
Memories of Black veterans, fallen soldiers, preserved in a "White Table" tradition. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
As Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' hits Netflix, black Vietnam veterans discuss their experiences serving in 'a white man's war'