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Some 40 students who were involved in the production of A Piece of My Heart at Churchill High School learned about the Vietnam War and the toll it took on those who served in it. Full Article at HometownLife.com
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All of the displays are designed, fabricated and painted in the workshop at 105 W. Charleston Blvd. , in the Arts District of downtown Las Vegas. Prato's business, established in 1990, is closely tied to the housing market. Full Article at Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Samuel Chan, U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and the Korean War, looks on during the annual Veterans Day parade November 11, 2009 in New York City. View Photo »
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In the refugee camps in Thailand, many of the people are veterans or descendants of veterans who served in the Royal Lao Army and 'U.S. Secret Army' in Laos during the Vietnam War in defense of the Kingdom of Laos and Thailand from invading divisions from North Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army from...
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Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Often, the wounds are not as obvious as a lost limb or a scar. Full Article at HeraldNet
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In 1952, a 13-year-old boy got a phone call that still makes him cry when he talks about it decades later. Full Article at The Clarion-Ledger
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I am a daughter, a niece, a sister, a sister-in-law and a cousin of a Veteran from WWII to the most current Wars! I am the sister-in-law to Wayne Hunt the Vietnam Veteran that pulls the Flag draped "coffin" during the Veteran's Day Parade. Full Article at The Meridian Star
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Members of the Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment stand in front of a granite monument bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Worcester, Mass. , W... View Photo »
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I would still argue that only two of the 12 novels are what I would call political novels, A Prayer for Owen Meany because of Ronald Reagan as a character, because of the Vietnam war as an issue, and The Cider House Rules .
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Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese. There sure has been a lot of talk about the president and his submissiveness in Asia. Full Article at Lawrence Journal World
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William R. Polk writes in a guest editorial for IC, which he wishes someone would pass on to President Obama, quickly: In its war in Afghanistan, the United States has come to a crossroads. Full Article at Informed Comment
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The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1959 to 30 April 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other nations. Full Article
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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Samuel Chan, U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and the Korean War, looks on during the annual Veterans Day parade November 11, 2009 in New York City.
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Members of the Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment stand in front of a granite monument bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Worcester, Mass. , Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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Veteran's Day parade grand marshall and actor Tony Curtis, right, is greeted by a Vietnam war veteran in New York Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009.
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Vietnam war veteran Jimmy Bacolo, of Staten Island N.Y. , waits for the start of the Veteran's Day parade in New York on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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David Slater, a Marine Corp veteran of WWII, right, and Gennery Sergeant P.J. James, a Marine Corp veteran of the Vietnam War, greet friends and well-wishers before the start of the Veterans Day Parade in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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Retired Gen. Robert Shoemaker, left, a former commander of the Army during the Vietnam War, talks with Marg Martinez, a member of the Veterans of America, as they both participate in the annual Veterans Day parade outside of Fort Hood in downtown Killeen, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le, right, talks with Vietnamese journalists before a welcome ceremony for his ship USS Lassen and another ship USS Blue Ridge at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le is seen during interviews with journalists before a welcome ceremony for his ship USS Lassen and another ship USS Blue Ridge at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le comes out from his ship USS Lassen, which anckored off the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le, center, solutes to Vietnamese officers during a welcome ceremony for his ship USS Lassen and another ship USS Blue Ridge at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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U.S.Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le is seen in front of his ship USS Lassen, off the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.
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In this 1962 family photo, then South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, left, presents the Sword of Honor to Thong Ba Le, right, father of U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le in Vietnam.
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In this 1992 family photo, then President George Bush, left, congratulates midshipman Hung Ba Le, right, during the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
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Visiting South Korean president Lee Myung Bak (L) listens as Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) talks during their meeting in Hanoi on October 21, 2009.
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Visiting South Korean president Lee Myung Bak (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) during their meeting in Hanoi on October 21, 2009.
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Visiting South Korean president Lee Myung Bak (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) during their meeting in Hanoi on October 21, 2009.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Capt. John Poindexter in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, after a ceremony honoring recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation.
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President Barack Obama recognizes recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Vietnam War, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, during a ceremony of the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, during a ceremony honoring recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation.
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President Barack Obama, flanked by members of Troop A, First Squadron, 11th Armored Combat Regiment, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, during a ceremony honoring their service with the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during...
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President Barack Obama recognizes recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Vietnam War, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The soldiers were assigned to Troop A, First Squadron, 11th Armored Combat Regiment.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with retired Army Capt. John Poindexter during a ceremony honoring his unit with the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Vietnam War, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, in the Rose Garden ceremony of the White House in Washington.
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A U.S. military honor guard from Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command carries a box where remains are placed, to a U.S. Air Force aircraft during a repatriation ceremony at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Members of the Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment stand in front of a granite monument bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Worcester, Mass. , Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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In the refugee camps in Thailand, many of the people are veterans or descendants of veterans who served in the Royal Lao Army and 'U.S. Secret Army' in Laos during the Vietnam War in defense of the Kingdom of Laos and Thailand from invading divisions from North Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army from...
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I would still argue that only two of the 12 novels are what I would call political novels, A Prayer for Owen Meany because of Ronald Reagan as a character, because of the Vietnam war as an issue, and The Cider House Rules .
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From the apex of the Cold War to the collapse -- the collapse! -- of the Soviet Union. From my opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act to my part in securing the funds for building the memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. From my support to the war in Vietnam to my opposition to President George W. Bush's...
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The rejection of the war in Vietnam has now morphed into the world's concern at what is happening in Afghanistan. A period musical is once again as contemporary as today's headlines.
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The reader of a weekly magazine expects you are going to address certain obvious big things, even if you don’t cover everything, but Newsweek is hit-or-miss that way ... Sometimes Newsweek comes out of left field, like the cover on whether America could have won the Vietnam War. I think that works bette...
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The word 'veteran' may bring to mind someone elderly, who may have served in World War I, World War II, or the Vietnam War ... But veterans today come in all sizes, shapes, colors and ages.
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one of the better professions or careers that a person can choose. I think it's a good idea to recognize veterans because many of them didn't receive a whole lot of recognition when they came home from the Vietnam War, plus it promotes the military
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The Vietnam War was lost in the United States
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A great message. He did a great job ... He was a POW during the Vietnam War. He talked about returning with honor and talked about the need to lean on each other, communicate with each other and that's how they were able to make it. I thought the makeup of our team would receive the message well. I just...
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From the moment the hostages were seized until they were released minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as president 444 days later ... the crisis absorbed more concentrated effort by American officials and had more extensive coverage on television and in the press than any other event sin...
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There is a lot of comparison between opposition to the Iraq war with opposition to the Vietnam war, but people tend to forget that at first there was almost no opposition to the Vietnam war
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It was the evening of Oct. 1, 1969, when I first smuggled several hundred pages of top-secret documents out of my safe at the RAND Corporation. The study contained 47 volumes, 7,000 pages. My plan was to Xerox the study and reveal the secret history of the Vietnam War to the American people.
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Those ships were to some extent very involved in the history of our country ... In World War II for the first USS Juneau, the Korean conflict for the second USS Juneau and the Vietnam War for the third Juneau.
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I would like to know why not one person or the government and the state of Texas has ever displayed a simple plaque of all Corpus Christi’s Vietnam veterans that lost their lives in the Vietnam War?
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I feel [the Tonkin Gulf Resolution] was used for justification of an unjust war in Vietnam, and I intend to use my efforts to make sure the United States never again enters an unjust war.
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that everything we thought we knew about the role of NSA in the Vietnam War needs to be reconsidered.
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That is one of the three PTF boats involved in the Tonkin Gulf Incident that started the Vietnam War
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All of us feel … that we are participating in this award ceremony standing in stead of all Vietnam War veterans
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These are Vietnam vintage; designed during the Vietnam war. Some of the fuses I have seen here were built in 1973 and dropped in 2006. They are past their shelf life ... The sub-munitions are now at the point where they are too old and too fragile to move.
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There's little question in our minds that the unpopularity of the war in Vietnam is a major contributing factor to the reception these men received when they returned to the United States and a major factor, in my opinion, in the silence that most of them have assumed since then
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I came across [a bottle of the sauce] during the Vietnam war in a semi-defunct colonial hotel in Dalat and another in a bar in Samarkand in what was then Soviet Central Asia.
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Older Americans are most likely to see parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam - possibly because they remember the Vietnam War, rather than reading about it in textbooks.
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As signs of the Vietnam War fade away in this rapidly modernizing country [Vietnam], one relic is hard to miss: a nationwide network of loudspeakers from which the communist government blasts propaganda at dawn and dusk, 30 minutes at a stretch, whether the public likes it or not
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Facing formidable opposition from the governments of Thailand and Laos, these students represent a spark of fire and dedication that could ignite appropriate action to rescue these Hmong refugees. Clearly stopping the forced repatriation of relatives of former American allies -- the Hmong -- during the ...
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@ampersandwich I am rowing the same boat, trying to write paper on Vietnam War for sociology class.
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@YooitsMokay we have to reasearch the vietnam war.(idk, thats what she told us) dont mind me. lol
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@adammc123 I took a class in college that focused on Johnson and the Vietnam war. Very interesting.
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