By Todd DePastino Do you know this Marine? We think he's Richard L. henry, Jr., who served in the USMC Combined Action Program CAP 3-3-6. John Suzadail wants to thank him for saving his life in 1970. Seventy-three-year-old Vietnam War veteran John Suzadail is on a quest to find his long-lost comrade,
written by Jerry Augustine Jerry Augustine of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam preparing for an ambush patrol in 1966 with a 10 cent mirror purchased in downtown Tay Ninh (Courtesy Gerald Augustine). In November 1966, during my fourth month in Vietnam with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, I received a letter from Salvatore
Viviana Hall is an Argentine-born American poet who recently sent us an unpublished poem, "For Freedom," she wrote in response to the ongoing war in Ukraine. FOR FREEDOM by Viviana Hall Author of the Book “Poems of Love” Alone Under dark skies Awaiting the Bear She stands The winds of war are blowing Fields of golden wheat Burnt Drinking water Polluted Entire cities Destroyed Schools Hospitals Train stations Shelters Under attack Thousands of
To paint or not to paint? That was the question for US Army and Navy Air Forces in World War II. In late 1943, the Army and Navy both decided to stop painting their fighters and bombers in camouflage colors. From January 1944, all new B-17s, B-24s, P-38s, P-47s, and other aircraft, apart from
The letter below is excerpted from Annette Langlois Grunseth’s award-winning book, Combat and Campus: Writing Through War, which chronicles her brother Peter Langlois’s combat experience in Vietnam. This was Peter’s first full letter home after landing in Vietnam two weeks earlier. We’re grateful to Annette for sharing this letter with us. You can order
Written by Jim Roberts The story below is adapted from Jim Roberts’s book, MAT 111 Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1971: Stories from 33 Quebec's Tour of Duty. Cluster munitions and cluster bombs are in the news today because of the controversial decision by the United States to supply the ordnance to Ukraine for its war
