In 1967, General William Westmoreland, head of the American war effort in Vietnam, ordered that all servicemen and women arriving in country be given a pocket card reminding them of how to behave in this foreign land. This “Nine Rules of Conduct Card” (this one, courtesy of former 1st Lt. George Hunter)
On this week’s Scuttlebutt, we talk about the Merchant Marine. Yes, it still exists. No, they aren’t military. And, heck no, don’t ever call them “Merchant Marines”! Anyone working with veterans quickly learns two things: don’t forget to include the Coast Guard, and don’t forget to include the Merchant Marine, especially when
By Pete Mecca Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. Mike was a spitting image of what most people believe a young Air Force officer should look like: tall, handsome, with a hospitable grin and approachable demeanor. A 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy, he lettered on varsity tennis
By Todd DePastino Vietnamese teachers line up in matching dresses and take photos, recognizing International Women's Day. Photo from VBC's 2018 Tour of Vietnam On our VBC trip to Vietnam in 2018, we checked into our hotel at Halong Bay on March 8. As each woman in our group entered
By Glenn Flickinger A review of Steven Rabalais’s General Fox Conner: Pershing’s Chief of Operations & Eisenhower’s Mentor(Casement Publishers, 2017) In 1925, no one who knew Major Dwight Eisenhower could have imagined his rise to the Pantheon of American Heroes. Back then, Ike still carried the whiff of his hardscrabble Kansas
Join us for a special Greatest Generation Live WWII Roundtable on Tuesday, March 16 at 7:00pm as we discuss The Bridge on the River Kwai, David Lean’s 1957 epic masterpiece about the Japanese effort to build a jungle railway in 1942-1943 using hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners and slave laborers. Starring
