“Me love you long time,” a Vietnamese sex worker tells the U.S. troops, swiveling her hips as she hawks her services. “You party?” The first female character in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War classic ...
44,000 Idahoans are Vietnam Veterans. On Monday, in honor of Veterans Day, we heard from four of them about their memories and experiences. Though Elaine James' story is one shared by many Idaho ...
This year marks 50 years since the Vietnam War ended with the capture of Saigon by communist forces, and among those who escaped and survived are a Mason woman and her family, who arrived in the ...
THE DAY THE LAST U.S. MILITARY UNIT PULLED OUT OF VIETNAM. IT’S NO SECRET TROOPS RETURNING HOME WERE MET WITH HATE. THE WOMEN WERE ALSO MET WITH DISBELIEF. THEY EVEN SERVED AND DISREGARD. SHE WAS OUR ...
I THOUGHT THIS WAS MY CHANCE TO SEE THE WORLD. SO MANY FROM SMALL TOWNS MUSKOGEE TO WINONA, MINNESOTA. IT WAS DOTTY’S HOMETOWN. I REALLY DIDN’T THINK THAT MUCH ABOUT SOME WAR GOING ON IN SOME LITTLE ...
Gen. George A. Joulwan, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, recognized the sacrifices made by Schuylkill County servicemen and women in Vietnam in a letter dated May 25, 1996. “As a company commander ...