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Dan King is now an advocate for veterans, lobbying for resources such as treatment for PTSD and housing. For Veterans Day, Oneida leader shares story of pain and peace following Vietnam War Skip ...
On December 26, 2016, the Vietnam Veterans Day Coalition of States Council presented a letter to President Elect Donald Trump and Congressional leadership outlining the history and timeline of cause to establish March 29 as Vietnam War Veterans Day and requesting that it be one of the first legislations passed and signed into law during the 115 ...
State Rep. Harry Garcia, D-Grants, himself a Vietnam veteran, requested the designation. Army 2nd Lt. Jesse Mechem came from a family with a history of service. Mechem of Las Cruces was the son of ...
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 ...
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".
Platoon Leader is a true story told by James R. McDonough, a Vietnam War veteran. The book takes place in and around a fort near a Vietnamese village in Binh Dinh province. It is McDonough's retelling of his time in Vietnam. He wrote the book as an officer development tool while he was a battalion commander.
Yott, who lives in Bath, is combining those two interests to put together a compilation of personal stories from Vietnam War veterans in advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1975 end of the ...
The Madness of It All: Essays on War, Literature, and American Life, McFarland & Co., 2002. Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Vietnam War, Temple University Press, 1999. Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. In the Shadow of Vietnam: Essays 1977–1991, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1991.