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Written by Barb Smith We met Oberlin, Ohio, resident Barb Smith last year at our storytelling events in Youngstown, Ohio, and she has since joined...
HH-43 crew practicing Local Base Rescue/Firefighting. Downwash air from the rotors opened a path for rescuers to spray foam from the red and white fire...
We like to share other veteran storytelling projects conducted across the nation, and recently Vietnam Veteran Tom Morrissey passed along a link to the Veteran...
Marine assists an Afghan over the wall at Abbey Gate. (USMC Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla) Marines comfort babies left for evacuation. (USMC Sgt. Isaiah Campbell)...
From right: Abdul, Mohammed and family members. (Mikael Cook) By Mikael Cook Over the last two weeks of August 2021, as the Taliban completed its...
The Nguyen family in Saigon, March, 1975. Eva (Truc) is held by her father. (Eva Nguyen Whitfield) by Jason Nulton and Eva Nguyen Whitfield If...
The Final Days of South Vietnam, March-April 1975. (USA) by Todd DePastino In 1973, after the ceasefire of January 27 and the departure of the...
Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, Commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, boards a C-17 as the last American service member to leave Afghanistan. (U.S....
Joe Boscia with his South Vietnamese counterparts, 1968. (Joe Boscia) Joseph Boscia, Captain, US Army, Vietnam 1968-69 I was thunderstruck on Wednesday, April 30, 1975,...
President Ford meets with Graham Martin, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand, and Secretary of State...
HENDERSONVILLE – On March 28, 2025, Lt. Col. Dr. Edwin (Ed Cotty) Cottrell (1922–2025) went to join his beloved wife Mildred (Millie) in heaven. He...
Written by Todd DePastino On April 30, 2025 — the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War — a powerful new documentary will...
