Beyond the Killing Fields is a compilation of Sidney Schanberg’s war reporting, including dispatches from Cambodia as the Khmer Rouge closed in. Schanberg presents his evidence that American POWs and MIAs who survived the war were left behind
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Book Review – Lullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam 1965-1966, by Franklin Cox
In Lullabies for Lieutenants, author Franklin Cox describes his in-country experience as a U.S. Marine forward observer during the Vietnam War, 1965-66, giving glimpses at both the “big picture” and the many tiny facets that make up the Vietnam War
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Book Review – The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam: Unparalleled and Unequaled, by Maj. Gen. Ira A. Hunt Jr. (Ret.)
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam by Ira Hunt addresses its sniper program, problems of weapons retrieval and collateral damage, and offers insights to the 9th ID’s pioneering of tactical innovations and its trouble operating in the Mekong Delta
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Daily Quiz for September 15, 2010
Winston Churchill’s secret project code-named White Rabbit No. 6 involved creating these type of devices.
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Interview: Karl Marlantes / Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes discusses his bestseller book, Matterhorn, how he came to write it, how it got published and what the reactions have been from readers, both veterans and nonveterans.
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Letter from Vietnam magazine – October 2010
Longest war no more The Vietnam War remains representative of many things in American […]
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Daily Quiz for September 14, 2010
The Baby Ruth candy bar was named for the daughter of this president.
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Daily Quiz for September 13, 2010
The first movie censorship law in America was passed in this city in 1907.
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Daily Quiz for September 12, 2010
When did the US Congress grant citizenship to all Native Americans?