written by Haya Eason October 23, 1983, began as just another quiet Sunday morning at Marine Base Camp Geiger, North Carolina. I was a 20-year-old 0100 (Military Administration) Discharge Clerk at the Infantry Training School (ITS) there. Sunday morning was when I ironed my uniforms for the week ahead. As the iron heated up,
written by Curtis McLachlan Curtis McLachlan is a Vietnam veteran who owns Curtis McLachlan Construction & Remodeling in Carson City, Nevada. He also runs the Vietnam War Memorial Museum in Carson City. SP4 Curtis McLaughlin, June 1970-April 1972, Vietnam In 1969, just after I’d graduated high school in the Los Angeles area,
written by Bill Spanos Vietnam Veteran Bill Spanos was a US Army advisor to the South Vietnamese Army, which was called ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam). He served as both an Assistant and Senior Advisor with MACV (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Team 70 to the 5th ARVN Division. MACV Advisor Teams consisted of
written by Todd DePastino Probabaly the Government of French Indochina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In part one of this essay, we discussed how Vietnam’s peasants under French rule, like peasants everywhere, lived on the brink of catastrophe. That is the nature of the peasant’s existence. As R.H. Tawney put it, a
written by Todd DePastino Before the arrival of the French, Vietnam was a feudal land made up of villages of subsistence farmers. The French began to dismantle this feudal system in the early 20th century, and the upheaval they wrought eventually exploded in Revolution. Feudalism is a strange way of life for modern Americans
written by L. Jon Grogan L. Jon Grogan was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1975. He served various command and staff assignments in the United States and overseas until his retirement at the rank of Major in 1996. Among his assignments were two, six-month stints in East Africa, first as a member of Operation
