Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald today presented U.S. Army Veteran Harry J. Van Riper with the 2023 Dr. Charles J. Martoni Veterans Service Award during a ceremony at the county Courthouse in Pittsburgh. The award recognizes individuals who continue their service to the country following their discharge from military service. Mr. Van Riper was
written by Todd DePastino Vietnam Veterans and great spirit Jerry Augustine sent this photo taken this week at Beman Middle School in Middletown, Connecticut. The photo captures the meeting of 7th graders and Jerry, member of The Veterans of the Vietnam War, Middletown, Inc., which comes into the school every year around Veterans Day
written by Bob Connor Vietnam veteran Louie Dunham acquired an NVA helmet while serving as an MP in Vietnam in the 1960s. He returned home with the helmet and kept it for over 50 years. Recently, he posted on Facebook that he'd like to give it away, perhaps even return it to Vietnam. In
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
