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Vietnam veteran reflects on war time service, more than 50 years later
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the infantry,” explained Wayne ...
Agent Orange cleanup, efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts
A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, ...
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First Medal of Honor Recipient of Vietnam War Wore Award 'On Behalf of Those Who Didn't Come Home'
Inside the camp were just 360 CIDG trainees, 12 Green Berets and one Australian ... training base in Vietnam. (U.S. Army) As he began running ammo to his gun crews, he saw the camp's main gate ...
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60 years since U.S. troops entered Vietnam, an Army Vet recalls his journey
You look at the sea of men in green ... Army specialist Henry Smithers and his daughter, Roxann Smithers, for StoryCorps in Atlanta. After this interview, she took her father to visit the Vietnam ...
John Wayne's 'The Green Berets' Redefined the War Genre (in a Bad Way)
N o film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiq ...