by Wayne WadeRichard “Dick” Cavazos commanded the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment—the “Dogface Battalion”—in Vietnam before becoming the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Wayne Wade served in Cavazos’s battalion and, in his new memoir, Legacy: A Pathway in the Darkness, draws on his own experience, research, and interviews to tell its story.This excerpt takes place
By Todd DePastinoAuthor Jack Cheevers piqued my curiosity the other week when, on our VBC LIVE, he talked about the infamous "Green Light Cable" sent from President John F. Kennedy's State Department to the new American ambassador in South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge. The secret message was known as Cable 243, sent on Saturday, August
By Don Wolfe One of the greatest gifts I took home from Vietnam was lifelong friendship. I want to tell you about one of those friends, George Rothnie. We met in the summer of 1968 at the Navy's Equipment Operators School in Davisville, Rhode Island. After training, we were separated for a year of
By Richard Berliner Richard Berliner's new book, A Different Journey: Vietnam 1965–1973 offers the rare perspective of an American civilian aid worker who lived, traveled, and worked alongside Vietnamese communities during the war. Richard served in Vietnam in 1966–67 as a volunteer with International Voluntary Services (IVS), making him a witness to war as
By Todd DePastino One of the most unforgettable moments of VBC StoryFest 2026 is coming to Morgantown, West Virginia. We hope you'll join us there! When we planned StoryFest, we chose to close the festival with Cody LeRoy Wilson's one-man play, Did My Grandfather Kill My Grandfather? It was a little risky because we'd
By Daria Sommers We're grateful to Aspects of History for allowing this re-post of Daria's article about the history behind her novel. The piece first appeared on the Aspects of History website.I’m frequently asked how much of my novel Sawadika American Girl is drawn from real life. A work of historical fiction, it is
