Stafford said the aim is not to allow decades to pass for the current group of veterans like the years forgot about the Vietnam vets.“We welcome them home today and honor our Gold Star families,” added Stafford, who, along with his wife Brigitte, organized the event.Navy veteran Harry ...
And it still has the benefit of being done early, when many of the players were still alive and available for interview. But the passage of time has given Ken Burns several advantages. People are now more willing to talk about their experience without self editing, the historical perspective ...
Two Canadian scientists played a key role in the process, Chris Hatfield and Wayne Dwernychuk who founded a consulting firm, and they would dive into the problems described when the United States still in 1999 refused to devote the proper resources to assist the American vets and the Vietname...
I knew I was in Vietnam for three hundred and ninety-five days, and if I was still alive at the end of those three hundred and ninety-five days, I'd go home and forget the whole thing. That was the way you operated." Not all young men in America were drafted. There were ...
“Everywhere we went, as soon as they knew we were Vietnam vets, people wanted to come up and talk to us and shake our hands,” said Greene, who borrowed money to make the trip after hearing other veterans discuss the solace they found on such journeys. “These people had the greatest...
It started a month after exiting the Vietnam Waraliveand receiving a GI Bill stipend to become a “first generation” college student, and a few years later, to buy my first home. But it wasn’t until I got care-giver burnout in 2008 while taking care of my wife who suffered a traum...
She thinks of her husband out in the bush and wonders if he is still alive. 50,000 of these leaflets were requested by the Vietnamese 25th Infantry Division. The text on the back is: Wives of the fighters of the in the 165th Regiment. Where is your husband? Is he one of those ...
In truth, the proverbial test of time has been kind to both films.Coming Homeis not perfect, but has some spectacular moments. The all too brief opening scenes in the V.A. hospital, in which a group of non-actor vets improvised their lines, are electrifying, while the movie-movie shortc...
Get Your Shit Together– usually said to new guys, meaning to shape up and learn everything possible to stay alive. Golden BB– that lucky small arms round that brought down a helicopter or other aircraft. Grunt:noun, an infantryman, also called “Ground pounders” ...
“All they did was to Save the World!”. They are dying at the rate of 700 a day across the United States. Even here in Florida, the numbers of World War II Vets are diminishing quickly. The oldest Vet on our Flight was 97 and the youngest 87. Like I said, we didn’t know ...