Viet Nam War - still with us
Jane Fonda: “I Don’t Regret Going To Vietnam,” “I’m Proud That I Went. It Changed My Life For The Good”…
The American Stars and Stripes and the yellow-and-red flag of the Republic of South Vietnam will fly across California this week as many of the 2.7 million Vietnam War veterans join 1.7 million Vietnamese-Americans in remembering the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, which took place on April 30, 1975….
Meanwhile he watched the Love Boat merrily steaming over the horizon, firing at the coastline and never missing him for two days. There is not much to do in the South China Sea at 0345…. About 1800 that same day, a Vietnamese fishing boat came by and hauled him out of the water…. One mistake they made was to put him in for a while with Joe Crecca, an Air Force officer who had developed a method of creating the most organized memory bank we possessed to record the names of pilots shot down and imprisoned in Vietnam….
Jane Fonda's scheduled appearance on QVC to promote her new memoir was canceled after the cable shopping channel got calls threatening boycotts over her Vietnam War protests, the actress wrote Saturday on her blog. ... Fonda blamed the cancellation on the "far right."
He didn't join the Army willingly, but as Command Sergeant Major Jeff Mellinger prepares to retire, he is grateful he found his calling. Mellinger, 58, was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, and the Army believes he is the last draftee to retire, after 39 years. Most did their two years and left. But Mellinger had found home. "I think I'm pretty good at it, but I like it,'' he said. "That's the bottom line. I love being a soldier and I love being around soldiers.''
BROKEN ARROW, OK -- "No veteran should ever be forgotten." That's the theme for Floral Haven's annual Memorial Day Observance. A nearly forgotten veteran of the Vietnam War will be given a special place of honor in Saturday's ceremonies. A bench will be the final resting place for Private Warren Nicholls at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens. Don Clapsaddle is with the Military Order of the Purple Heart. He has led an effort to properly honor a nearly forgotten Viet Nam veteran...
THREE Vietnamese men were killed while trying to saw through a war-era shell to salvage metal and explosives.... "The poor men wanted to sell the metal for money. They could not escape the sudden blast...." more than 38,000 Vietnamese nationals have been killed and 100,000 injured by explosives left over from the Vietnam War