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Interview: Senator Chuck Hagel / Vietnam Combat Veteran
Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran and former Nebraska senator, talks about his combat experience, serving alongside his brother Tom, and his recent selection to lead an advisory committee for the 50th anniversary events commemorating the Vietnam War.
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Rest in Peace? Bringing Home U.S. War Dead
MHQ adds to PBS’s “Death and the Civil War” with the history of a sacred tradition born of a bitter fight
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War Hero Poser Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Theft
In spite of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 decision striking down the Stolen […]
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This Mortar Platoon Was Surrounded, Outmanned And Outgunned in Vietnam
The decision to leave a mortar platoon alone on May 21, 1966, sealed the fate of its men and journalist Sam Castan.
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Interview: Patrick Chauvel / War Photographer
Patrick Chauvel has spent decades photographing war, from the 1967 Six-Day War to the recent conflict in Libya.
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President Launches Commemoration and Lauds Vietnam Vets at The Wall on Memorial Day
This year’s Memorial Day observance at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was highlighted by President […]
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Broadway Play Plots Pro-War Columnist’s Joe Alsop’s Fall
A new production on Broadway, The Columnist, which ran April through June 2012, examines […]
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My War – Prof. Charles R. Carr
On his first helicopter assault, he jumped and ran the wrong way; his company was 30 ft. away, facing the other direction
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Book Review: Tunnel Rat in Vietnam
Provides insight into the adaptation of man and equipment to an exceptional combat environment in Vietnam, where volunteers for clearing tunnels could come from infantry, engineers, armored cavalry or elsewhere.