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The Vietnam War left an indelible mark on history, but for many veterans, the battle didn’t end when they returned home.Often ...
Mr. Teixeira spent the next year learning to fly helicopters, and in June 1969, he was deployed to Vietnam. A year later, he was discharged and got home to drive his 1970 Plymouth Road Runner ...
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, known to its crews as the Thud, was a cornerstone of US Air Force strike capability dur ...
When filmmaker Peter McDowell was just five, his family got news that his 24-year-old brother Jimmy had died in Vietnam at 24. It was 1972 and, while tragic, this news wasn’t exactly uncommon at ...
That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural ... “I Should Be Proud,” Martha Reeves & the Vandellas (1970) Martha Reeves & the ...
Subsequent draft lotteries for the Vietnam War were held in 1970, 1971, and 1972. Though some saw the televised draft lottery as a way to randomize the selection process, detractors of the war ...
Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and ...