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Life After War - Vietnam veterans discuss the difficulty of seeing fellow servicemen die and adjusting to life after their return home. Honoring War Veterans - Over 1,800 dog tags hang on the Mares Bluff Veterans Memorial. Experts discuss questioning the Vietnam War and Latino military service. Camacho shares his belief about Latino service ...
Because of him, the dogs now have food and fresh water every day. When he adopts a stray dog in his community, it takes the 78-year-old Vietnam veteran back to the times when he looked after his ...
Jerry Michael Tate Shriver (24 September 1941 – 10 June 1974), also known by his nickname "Mad Dog", was a master sergeant in the United States Army who served in Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) in the Vietnam War.
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer".
The Vietnam War devastated the young men and women of that generation. In addition to the 58,000 plus killed, over 75,000 were severely disabled, meaning that they had been incapacitated, facing ...
It was a scorching hot day in Afghanistan, with the mercury topping out at 120 degrees. For eight hours, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Alfred Brenner patrolled the desert with his bomb-sniffing dog.
March 29 was chosen as National Vietnam War Veterans Day because on March 29, 1973, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was disbanded and the last U.S. combat troops departed the Republic of Vietnam. The last unit was elements of MACV's Infantry Security Force (Special Guard), actually special couriers. [citation needed]
At 22 years of age, he was assigned to the 377th Air Police Squadron at Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon, Vietnam as a sentry dog handler. He was paired with a German Shepherd named Nemo A534. He had been in country for at least 5 months when the December 1966 attack on Tan Son Nhut AB occurred.