A teenaged corpsman, Topmiller survived the carnage of Khe Sanh, but ministering to dead and dying Marines for 2 1/2 months affected him for the rest of his life.
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DVD Review – Wartorn 1861-2010, from exec. prod. James Gandolfini
Wartorn goes back to our nation’s deadliest war, to letters written by Pennsylvania rifleman Angelo Creapsey describing his despair, and shows how in a century and a half we’ve barely moved off the dime to address the issue of PTSD.
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DVD Review – Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories
Vietnam War Stories is a collection of oral histories by Wisconsin’s Vietnam War veterans, complimented with a selection of historic film footage. The DVD offers a good overview of the history of the Vietnam War.
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Daily Quiz for June 28, 2011
Although not admitted to the bar until 1890, this individual began writing and publishing the weekly Chicago Legal News in 1868.
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Daily Quiz for June 27, 2011
Many scientists regard this man’s Principia to be the most important science book ever published.
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Daily Quiz for June 26, 2011
Americans Bertha and Harry Holt founded an organization to assist with this.
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Daily Quiz for June 25, 2011
This famous pioneer was elected to Congress from Tennessee three times beginning in 1826.
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Irreconcilable Differences
Winston Groom, author of Vicksburg 1863, explores the reasons the North and South found themselves at war.
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Daily Quiz for June 24, 2011
In 1937 at age forty, Margaret Rudkin began this business in her kitchen.
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Daily Quiz for June 23, 2011
The last time a battleship of Britain’s Royal Navy fired its guns in anger, the target was this nation.