written by George Dvorznak Vietnam Veteran Steve Foreman emerges from a tunnel at Cu Chi during the VBC trip to Vietnam in 2018 During our recent history talk about the Vietnam War, I mentioned how the Ho Chi Minh Trail emptied out north and west of Saigon in a place called Cu
The VBC is excited to announce that its documentary about the return of members to Vietnam in 2018, We Left as Brothers, is now available on Blu-Ray and streaming on Amazon.In March of 2018, eighteen members of Pittsburgh’s Veterans Breakfast Club traveled to Vietnam to tour old battlefields of what Americans called the Vietnam War.
Reviewed by Donn Nemchick A 20-year-old Stanley Adams was drafted in 1968 and was quickly transformed into a US Army infantry rifleman. Soon, he headed for combat in Vietnam. Adams passionately recounts his trip from a rural Midwestern town to the jungles of South East Asia. He vividly shares what it was like to
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
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
