Army soldier listens over the radio as Viet Cong guerrillas shoot his replacement during Vietnam War
Vietnam War
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Veterans Reunite with ‘Precious Cargo’ 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon
Woman who escaped the fall of Saigon as a toddle finds the veterans that helped her resettle in America
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Easter in Vietnam: Eggs, Orphans, and Too Much Warm Beer
Air Force team stationed in Vietnam dyes Easter eggs for Catholic orphanage and helps bridge a cultural divide.
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Norman Mailer Was Looking for a Fight. I Just Wanted Someone to Understand My Service in Vietnam.
Army veteran almost got in a fight with Norman Mailer when the American writerasked him to describe his service in the Vietnam War.
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Fifty-Two Years After a US Spy Plane Was Shot Down Over Laos, a Family Still Fights For Answers
The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.
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My Men Had Served a Year in Hell. I Was Getting Them Home, Come Humid Hell or High Water.
Second Lt. Marvin Wolf overcame obstacle after obstacle to ensure 150 enlisted troops got home from a combat tour in Vietnam on a C-141 aircraft.
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Vietnam Veterans: Seven Steps to Find Out If You Qualify for Agent Orange Benefits
A new report finds VA failed to notify up to 87,000 Vietnam War veterans they may qualify for compensation for illnesses after they were exposed to Agent Orange. Are you one of them?
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87,000 Vietnam Veterans May Qualify for $844 Million in Benefits. How Come Nobody Told Them?
While there is widespread agreement that America should compensate its veterans for their sacrifice and service, there’s a growing concern about where all this money will come from. Already a record budget shortfall is threatening payments to millions of veterans as soon as October.
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A Hollywood Bad Boy, a Near Brawl, and the Wild Blue Yonder
Of all the scenarios I’d imagined when I’d joined the Air Force as things heated up in Vietnam, this certainly wasn’t one of them.
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Reunited Friends, a Missing Medal, and a Wrong Righted More than 50 Years Later
We all spent many hours traveling by Huey and Chinook helicopters, but my DD214 showed that I had never been awarded the Air Medal.
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I Volunteered for This Mission. I Could Take Photographs That Might Outlive Me.
Drowning in fear and self-loathing, I reminded myself why I was here. Why I was in Vietnam. On this helicopter. Why I had volunteered for this mission.
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‘Come Hell or High Water’–Rangers Caught in Urgent Fight, Flight to Save One of Their Own
It was June 1970, more than a month into the U.S. campaign in Cambodia and the expansion of the war in Vietnam. And sure enough, there they were.
