In 1962, Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti became America’s first female prisoner of war in Vietnam. She’s still unaccounted for.
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‘How do nations remember wars?’ Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen is Trying to Find Out
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory”
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‘Rain in Our Hearts’: Iconic Photos of Infantry in Vietnam
Carrying a camera alongside his rifle, infantryman James Allen Logue documented the daily life of soldiers at war in Vietnam
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Marine Vietnam Veterans Recreate ‘Then and Now’ Photograph 50 Years After the Original
In 2016 the Marines got together to recreate the original snap
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Retired Ranger Col. Ralph Puckett, 94, Receives Medal of Honor for Korean War Battle
In May, retired Ranger Col. Ralph Puckett received the nation’s highest military honor and a call from President Joe Biden
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They Tried to Kill Each Other in the Skies Over Vietnam. Now They’re Friends
Thirty-six years after clashing in a dogfight over North Vietnam, an American fighter pilot and a North Vietnamese fighter pilot buried the hatchet.
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The Tensions of a Controversial War Explode at Kent State University on May 4, 1970
The Kent State shootings reconsidered
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Relics and Graves of the Civil War
You don’t have to look far to find traces of Patrick Cleburne in Tennessee
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How Communist Propaganda Efforts Helped this American POW in Vietnam
“I was looking for any way for my family to know I was alive,” Dewey Wayne Waddell recalled
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Book Review: Prisoner of Wars / A Hmong Fighter Pilot’s Story of Escaping Death and Confronting Life
This book details the U.S. Air Force/CIA program recruiting young airmen from Laos’ Hmong mountain tribes to fly dangerous missions against communist forces.