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12 TV shows influenced by the Vietnam War
If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.
Navy to name warship after heroic Vietnam POW
Jeremiah Denton was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965 and blinked the word "torture" in Morse code during a TV interview the following year.
Remember that time we forgot a navy and had to go back and get it?
“We forgot ’em.”
By Don North, Vietnam Magazine
Trump’s battle with China dominated 2018’s headlines in Asia
Across the region, there are pockets of optimism but also a pervasive feeling of disquiet, a lot of which is linked to the twin political behemoths whose presence has been felt this year in every corner of Asia: China and Trump.
This is what happened when an Air Force pilot got assigned to a Navy carrier
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
By Chester Peterson Jr., Aviation History Magazine
A Coastie meditates on war and peace
"We have always made strong, smart and courageous officers, but we just haven’t equipped them for the emotional scars of war. Because of repeated combat deployments, kids are coming home with PTSD in huge numbers. "
By Vietnam Magazine
Here’s what the mess served Navy shipmates on Christmas Days of the past
From fruit with mayonnaise dressing to turkey with tartar sauce, check out these Xmas menus from underway vessels of yesteryear.
Held hostage for 11 months, this Navy crew was freed two days before Christmas
The surviving members of the tortured crew continue to suffer the consequences of their captivity.
By Mitch Lerner, Military History Magazine
These Medal of Honor recipients were men of God
Both priests lived and died for the grunts they loved.
By Ray Pezzoli Jr., Vietnam Magazine
Twice deported veteran buried in Texas with military funeral honors
Carlos Jaime Torres’s family recently gathered under a tree to watch him lowered to his final resting spot at the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery in Mission.
By Daniel A. Flores, The (Mission, Texas) Monitor via the AP
When Seabees weren’t building bases in Vietnam, they were fighting the enemy
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., includes 85 Seabees among its list of war dead—a tribute to their motto, “We build, we fight,” which is symbolized in their logo of a bee holding a wrench, hammer and machine gun.
By Tom Edwards, Vietnam Magazine