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Tribute – CMSgt. Richard Etchberger: What He Did in Laos to Earn a Posthumous Medal of Honor in 2010
Killed 42 years ago, Etchberger single-handedly held off the NVA at a secret radar site and saved the lives of several airmen
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Tet – What Really Happened at Hue
As 2,800 bodies were unearthed from mass graves, it was clear the VC had committed atrocity killings against civilians.
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Interview: Lin Ezell / Marine Corps Museum Director
Lin Ezell, director of the five-year-old National Museum of the Marine Corps, discusses the museum’s innovative building design, its mission and its future plans.
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Film Review – The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, a film by Henry Corra, chronicles Vietnam veteran Dan Smith’s 2008 search in Vietnam and Cambodia for McKinley Nolan, a private who went AWOL in 1967, but was suspected of living with a “second family” in Cambodia
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Ia Drang – The Battle That Convinced Ho Chi Minh He Could Win
Joe Galloway takes a hard look at the assessments of Ia Drang by the war’s architects in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi: McNamara, Westmoreland, Ho and Giap
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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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American Veterans Center – Preserving the Legacy
An exclusive interview with Tim Holbert, executive director of the American Veterans Center, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of American veterans and active duty personnel from WW2 to today.
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Book Review – After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company, by Gary W. Bray
After My Lai by Gary W. Bray follows the infantryman’s experience as commander of 1st Platoon, Charlie Company (Americal Div 20th Inf Reg) the same platoon that 2nd Lt. William Calley had commanded during the My Lai massacre a year and a half earlier
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SR-71 Blackbird Sets London-to-LA Speed Record
On September 13, 1974, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set a world speed record that remains standing today.