Soldiers have long appreciated the use of hand signals as a means of silent communication on the front lines.
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Interview: Larry Colburn / Why My Lai, Hugh Thompson Matter
Larry Colburn talks about his late friend Hugh Thompson, the My Lai massacre, the subsequent cover up, investigations and trials.
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Daily Quiz for February 4, 2011
This famous rock star’s father was in command of the US Navy fleet off Vietnam during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
World History Group Book and DVD Guide
The perfect gifts for every history lover. CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ORDER. BEHIND […]
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Find the Cost of Freedom, Part I
A good book–in this case William Hitchcock’s The Bitter Road to Freedom–can make us think of the “good war” in new and disturbing ways.
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Churchill Charges Forth With Sword and Pen
As a young soldier-newspaperman at the turn of the 20th century, Winston Churchill found himself appalled—and fascinated—by war. His experiences were given to few young men, and few young men would so comprehensively have understood them and put them to such world-shaping use some 40 years on.
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Interview: James D. Johnson / Combat Trauma
James D. Johnson, author of Combat Trauma – A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences, discusses his book about post traumatic stress disorder, his background as a chaplain in Vietnam 1967-68, and his experiences in discovering his own PTSD in 2003.
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Learning the Ropes of Combat Coverage
On a slow boat to Saigon in 1965, an aspiring war reporter learns valuable lessons that would serve him well in his tumultuous first weeks as a stringer in Vietnam, when he assigns himself each morning to be where the action is, chasing rumors of war
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Interview: Sebastian Junger / Close Combat
Best-selling author Sebastian Junger joined an Army combat infantry unit on its 15-month deployment to research his latest book, War.