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 Voices is put on by the Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative's 4th Annual Veteran Voices event, held on November 13, 2024, at the RISD Museum’s Metcalf Auditorium. Veterans share stories,
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) At Abbey Gate, Afghans wave exit papers at Marines. (USMC) Sgt. Zielinski sharing an MRE with an Afghan he helped evacuate. (USMC Sgt.
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 conquest of Afghanistan, the United States military evacuated 79,000 people out of Kabul’s airport. It was a rescue operation that included thousands of Afghan allies desperate to
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 not for their sons being in the same Boy Scout troop, Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel Jason Nulton might never have heard his neighbor Eva Nguyen
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 last remaining US combat troops on March 29, North Vietnam decided to play the long game. The country had been torn apart and its forces routed in
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. Army MSgt. Alex Burnett) by Daria Sommers The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a human tragedy that came to an end at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in
