Walter Cronkite, reporting from Vietnam, had a loyal following. In a broadcast following the Tet Offensive in 1968, Cronkite expressed concern that the United States was mired in a conflict that would end in a
He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history — Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm — but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in...
The Brown Berets marched one thousand miles from Calexico to Sacramento in “La Marcha de laReconquista” to protest statewide against racial and institutionalized discrimination, police brutality, andthe high number of Chicano casualties in Vietnam. The Brown Berets then embarc on a yearlong nationwid...
In a Muslim country like Jordan, you would expect dawn to be marked by the Imam's call to prayer. This morning I went for a marathon training run through the hills of Amman, and I found a whole other call to action: school bus horns. ...
My last post on the F-35 elicited a great comment from a man who’s been there and done that, as far as serving in the military. He’s served in two branches, pulled time with two tours in the infantry in Vietnam, and retired out as a Warrant Officer. ...
Got my college ED on GI Bill, Vietnam Era. They have rewritten the terms, and I believe its now matching contributions or something, and of course tuition is out of reach. The lady at Lowes says “thanks for your service” and gives me a 10% discount. Monday ...
actual target. “A whole special furnace” was set up to dispose of the records, Abrams would later testify before Congress. “We burned probably12 hours a day.” False “post-strike” paperwork would then be written up indicating that the sorties had been flown over South Vietnam as ...
Armed Vietnamese vessels have deliberately collided with Chinese government ships andfishing boats. China has never yet drilled a single oil well in the South China Sea, whilecountries such as Vietnam and Philippines have long been producing oil and gas in the area.We are curious about Hagel'...
The Freedom Rides were an early example of the way in which television could amplify the effects of social protest, just as images from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965 or battle scenes from the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War would shift public opinion in the years to ...