The average age of the 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years (Although 58,169 names are in the Nov. 93 database, only 58,148 have both event date and birth date. Event date is used instead of declared dead d
Five Americans killed in Vietnam were 16 years or younger. The youngest was Private First-Class Dan Bullock, an African-American from North Carolina. Bullock enlisted in 1968 with a falsified birth certificate. He was killed three weeks after arriving in Vietnam, at the age of 15.US soldier...
With our victory over Glenn and the ‘exclusions clause’ achieved by the end of 1971, Fergus, Brian and I were among the few of the 1970-1971 militant activist generation to return to campus the following year when the continuing, unresolved, issue was ‘student control of student funds’....
Birth Year: 1908 Birth date: August 27, 1908 Birth State: Texas Birth City: Stonewall Birth Country: United States Gender: Male Best Known For: Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of the United States in 1960 and became the 36th president in 1963, following the assassination of Joh...
Rogue activist judge Hannah Dugan is arrested by the FBI for helping a violent illegal alien avoid capture by ICE. The Washington Post misleads Americans into thinking Trump is deporting U.S. citizen children. California frees illegal alien drunk driver who killed two American teens. Trump’s ...
After seeing their comrades killed by booby traps, there was a temptation for the patrol to take it out on the next village they arrived at. By doing so they increased the peasants hostility towards the Americans and made it more difficult for them to support the South Vietnamese government...
Two babies with birth defects caused by Agent Orange exposure are abandoned at a temple in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, July 25, 2011. /CFP Decades after the war, people in Southeast Asia are still getting killed by detonation of live bombs and mines left in the region during war time. ...
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The agent orange was an herbicide or defoliant chemical used by the U.S. in the Vietnam war to prevent forest from developing this kept the Vietnamese and Vietcong troops from being able to hide in the forests. The chemical also killed off crops that might have been being used as food ...
July 1959: The first U.S. soldiers are killed in South Vietnam As a number of U.S. advisors watched a movie in the mess hall of the South Vietnamese Army's compound at Bien Hoa, six guerrillas infiltrated the facility and opened fire with automatic weapons. Two Americans of the 13-...