After being shot down over Laos, POW Dieter Dengler organizes an escape and struggles to survive in the oppressive jungle
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Bruce Henderson’s Quest to Tell Dieter Dengler’s Life Story
Bruce Henderson, who was aboard the carrier when Dieter Dengler returned a hero, wrote Hero Found about the former POW
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Interview: Ted Morgan / Valley of Death
French-born journalist Ted Morgan covered the initial stages of America’s involvement in Vietnam as a reporter and now share his observations about the earlier French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
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Book Review: The Father of Us All
Stephen Budiansky reviews the book The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, by Victor Davis Hanson
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Interview: Dale Throneberry / Veterans Radio Founder
Listeners never know what may happen or what they may hear on Veterans Radio, a Saturday-morning radio program of, by and for veterans; an interview with its founder Dale Throneberry.
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Live From Washington, It’s Lottery Night 1969!
Forty years ago, on December 1, 1969, the first Vietnam draft lottery was held, which used birthdays to determine the random order in which young men would be chosen for military service in 1970. Birthdays were drawn from 366 blue plastic capsules.
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Born to Fight – Colonel Lewis Millett
A Vietnam magazine interview with Col. Lewis L. Millett, who served in two armies and three wars and was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading a bayonet charge in the Korean War.
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Interview: Timothy Davis / The Greatest Generations Foundation
The Greatest Generations Foundation helps veterans return to their old battlefields for closure and to capture their stories for posterity, as well as providing community educational programs – an interview with TGGF founder Timothy Davis.
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Interview: Bobbie Keith / The Weathergirl
Bobbie the Weathergirl, Bobbie Keith, ended her popular weather forecasts from Saigon’s Armed Forces Vietnam (AFVN) TV with her signature sign-off, ‘Until tomorrow, have a pleasant evening, weatherwise or…otherwise,’ from 1967 to 1969.
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Hell on Hamburger Hill
Hamburger Hill, where Col. Weldon Honeycutt led a controversial 10-day “meatgrinder” battle to secure Hill 937 only to abandon it a week later, Americans questioned the senseless slaughter. Soon, plans were announced to reduce U.S. troop strength.