Courtesy VVA Veteran (https://vvaveteran.org/32-5/felton.html) By Todd DePastino A few days ago, I received an email from Suzanne Sigona, who has been a volunteer at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Wall, in Washington, DC, for over 30 years. She wanted me to know about the recent death of Duery Felton Jr., the longtime
By Will Mears Two recent Veterans Breakfast Club programs have featured veterans of the Army Security Agency (ASA) whose work was important and behind-the-scenes. Their job was, among other things, to intercept, decode, and interpret enemy communications in real time. It was painstaking, highly technical work, carried out under strict secrecy. And yet, as
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of journalists covered the conflict, filing dispatches and photographs that shaped how Americans understood the war. Among them were a small but determined group of women who traveled the same roads and faced many of the same dangers of the servicemembers they covered.Two documentary filmmakers are now working to tell
The Veterans Breakfast Club mourns the passing of Major General William M. Matz, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.), a soldier who emerged from childhood paralysis to the highest levels of command and service. We learned of his death from our friend Rich Sherman, who wrote that General Matz passed away in Florida from lung damage
By Rich Thurmond No two men fought the same Vietnam War. Each Marine, Soldier, Sailor, or Airman carried his own war on his back, shaped by the ground he walked, the men beside him, the weather that punished him, and the enemy he seldom saw—until it was too late or almost too late. For
By John R. Terry “If you choose a fair fight, you chose the wrong fight.” The most favorable outcome in combat is simple to state and hard to achieve: accomplish the mission and bring everyone home alive. In the spring of 1971, I was responsible for planning and directing U.S. and allied naval forces
