Tag: Vietnam

Thousands of our kids are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan carrying the enormous weight of the emotional baggage picked up during their experience of war. This is nothing new, we brought back the same cargo from Vietnam, Korea and WW2. All wars provide their participants with a dismal tide of dark memories, the material of a lifetime of tortured nightmares.

Running Head: Instructional Protocol/Sensitivity during Interaction with PTSD Sufferers By Carol Ware Duff RN, BA, MSN, Healthcare Editor, Veterans Today The purpose of this teaching program...

MEDICAL ADVANCES: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES (TBIs) By Texas Vet, First Cavalry  Decades ago, I got blown up—literally outside a tin can sh*t and shower hut...

A DEBT, NOT A GIFT By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans are patriotic to a fault. Even when we see and hear politicians and bureaucrats...

SUPPORT TROOPS By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER History offers many examples of military personnel fielded as infantry when America's combat arms are hard pressed in...

IS AMERICA'S RACKETEERING "ELITE" A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor There is a group of Americans, a combination of coward, gangster, politician, buffoonish...

CONGRESS PLANS "STEALTH ATTACK" ON VETERANS BENEFITS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A week ago, we marched out of Iraq, leaving 50,000 "administrative" troops and...

VIETNAM ALL OVER AGAIN....A SONG BY BARRY DAVID BUTLER Posted by Gordon Duff Senior Editor VT Our thanks to Barry David Butler for telling it like...

I am not against war. I am a combat Vietnam Veteran. I know war. Lives were stolen in Vietnam and we are doing again every day, maybe not in same numbers but the lessons of Vietnam have more than been forgotten. The brightest time in American history, another "greatest generation" may well have been the one that stopped an evil and corrupt war. That generation saw the cost. Only the young, the young and the parents of those the war destroyed knew Vietnam. America simply turned away, a nation of, do we call them, do we call us, cowards? Is there another term?

"HIT SQUADS" MEANT TO "LIQUIDATE" TALIBAN LEADERS KILLING EVERYONE BUT... By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Months ago, JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) began to roll...

NOT ALL PHONIES ARE PHONY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One US Senator wears a Silver Star awarded to him instead of sending him to...

SO MUCH MORE THAN THE BLOWHARDS, KERRY, McCAIN AND NORTH  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor  I got back from Arizona a bit ago, visiting with...

To The Readers Of VT: I am on a mission and I am respectfully asking you to help me because I need your assistance,...

CAN ANYONE PROVE KARZAI IS BETTER THAN THE TALIBAN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Do we actually call what we are doing in Afghanistan a...

ARE REPORTERS PLAYING WITH STATISTICS TO TAKE ANOTHER CHEAP SWIPE AT VIETNAM VETERANS? By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky for VT Dear Mr. Stantis (sstantis@tribune.com): While having coffee...

Although that is not the title of this very recent media release by Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) to address all the questions now...

FLASHBACK: When the NY Times ignored gaping holes in candidate Bush's war record May 25, 2010 2:10 pm ET by Eric Boehlert  One of the striking talking points that...

The Times reported last week that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the bright hope of Democrats to retain a critical seat in the United States Senate, has sometimes falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. Predictably, in an election year with control of Congress in play, the report sparked plenty of outrage — much of it directed at The Times.

Broader newspaper archival searches have continued to turn up claims by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that he was a Vietnam War veteran, even though he did not serve in the war. The most recent claim unearthed was in a report published in The Milford Mirror, a weekly, describing an appearance he made at a May 2007 Memorial Day parade in Milford, Conn., attended by local officials, military people and the relatives of a local man killed while serving in Iraq.

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As Memorial Day approaches, thousands will make the pilgrimage to pay honor to loved ones lost to war. Some do not have to travel far. Others will make it an honorable effort to visit many cemeteries that bear the names and are home to our fallen military men and women.

Madison, Wisconsin—The Vietnam War veterans were betrayed. That's not the official slogan of the welcome-home Vietnam War veterans event to held be May 21-23 at Lambeau Field...

Shell shock, battle fatigue, operational exhaustion, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are all reiterations of the same condition which has been scientifically recognized since World War I. The issue itself may not be new, but we are only now realizing the extent of its influence. A recent explosion of such cases has many worried that not enough resources exist to help the returning heroes.

Marine veteran remembers Parris Island senior drill instructor who was awarded the Navy Cross with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines (the “Walking Dead”) in...

The Pentagon ruled each one eligible for inclusion on the wall, which as of Tuesday bore 58,267 names, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which created the memorial. A total of 328 names have been added since the wall was dedicated in 1982.

I was watching some of the news coverage on the 35th Anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Ironically, I was changing channels when I saw footage of the American folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary singing one of their biggest hit songs "Leaving On a Jet Plane" written by another great singer-songwriter, John Denver. It was a No. 1 song for the group in 1969, even though many other music artists had previously recorded their versions of it.

Spirited debate about the Vietnam War and its legacy lives on at Kent State University. War veteran and anti-war activist Country Joe McDonald screened two short documentary-style films about the war's impact at a gathering Sunday. The reaction to the movies at Kent State -- where the impact of that war may have been felt more than anywhere else -- was divided and passionate.

Veterans fighting to gain the benefits and care earned, deserved, and decades long over due!

Senators Propose TRICARE Dependent Coverage Extension Act A bill introduced to the U.S. Senate April 14 would, if passed into law, enable the dependent children...

The largest U.S. camp to temporarily house Southeast Asian refugees was at Camp Pendleton, which 50,000 refugees, mostly Vietnamese, passed through. The camp would eventually reshape Southern California. Many refugees stayed for the warm weather they were accustomed to in Vietnam. In central Orange County, refugees found cheap housing and plentiful jobs in Westminster, where they erected Vietnamese businesses along the strawberry and bean fields, drawing Vietnamese scattered in other states.

Why did you have your service record and POW debriefing classified FOREVER? Did you provide military secrets to North Vietnam as stated by Colonel Earl Hopper of Army Intelligence? Did you narrate 32 propaganda broadcasts for the North Vietnamese and give interviews to communist papers as is stated at www.mccainbetrayspows.com? Why have you kept your Presidential Pardon secret? Did you know that you are the only person serving in Congress with a Presidential pardon?

"OF THE 2.900,000 WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM, FEWER THAN 800,000 SURVIVE TODAY BY 2015, ALL MAY BE DEAD WITH 390 VIETNAM VETERANS DYING EACH DAY OVER...

Toxic Chemicals CONUS As most are aware, seen on TV, in the newspapers, and from veteran sites across the country, TCE/PCE is a major issue. TCE...

The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation.  May 17,...

Nearly 3,000 Individuals Have Responded to the CalVet Survey To Help Prioritize Services to California’s Veterans Sacramento – Nearly 3,000 individuals have responded to the...

James J. Alonzo “My name is Hector, I got Agent Orange. “ said the homeless Viet Nam veteran to the intake clerk. There are intake clerks...

THIS IS "BETWEEN US" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I just returned from the region after a REMF "combat tour" of my own, 5 star...

James J. Alonzo Regardless of what anyone says there are many good things that came out of Viet Nam war. One was the discovery of...

James J. Alonzo With all the illnesses, malformed babies, and suffering from Agent Orange, one could wonder who the person that ordered it to be...

Ceremonial Observation Saturday, March 27, 2010 55 Water StreetNew York, NY 10041 - Lobby Promenade - Adjacent to Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM: Reading...

This is based on a true story happening to me in the summer of 75'. I had hired on with the Donner - Hanna Coke...

Marines to honor author of classic 'When Hell Was in Session' By Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton The Marines know a true member of the warrior class when...