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Courageous Conversations

Film poster for Ken Burns' The Vietnam War

Courageous Conversations

Maine Public is encouraging Vietnam Veterans and anyone affected by the conflict to share their own story on the Vietnam War and correspondence they had during or after the war. Submissions can be written, recorded or videotaped and sent to Maine Public at mystory@mainepublic.org. The stories will be collected and archived here and some may be shared with the greater Maine audience.

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  • Denis Boudreau
    By June 6, 1941, the day I was born, my dad already had two children. Having a wife, three children, and a heart condition, he was deemed ineligible for…
  • Scott Gaiason, Lisbon Falls
    In 1965 I was in Boston, working and going to night school for high school after dropping out from Brunswick High School. At the age of 19, I was just…
  • John Richardson
    Although I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, 1971 – 72, I was stationed solely in Japan at Yakota Air Base. My story about Vietnam is when I…
  • Colette Twigg, Falmouth
    In 1971 at the age of 9, my dad read an article about metal bracelets that were being made in support of Vietnam POWs and troops MIA. The article talked…
  • Nicole d’Entremont, Peaks Island
    When I was in my early twenties, I joined The Catholic Worker Movement in 1964. The Worker had a soup kitchen one block off the Bowery in the Lower East…
  • Mike Nobel, Gorham
    Listen to These Are The Ones Who Die...
  • Robert Gelarden, Boothbay
    As we watch the PBS documentary The Vietnam War, we are told stories of valor and tragedy. Let me tell you another war story that is not in the series,…
  • Jean R Goldfine
    My daughter, Kim Anh, arrived in Swanville Maine on May 8, 1975. She is Amerasian, her birth mother Vietnamese and her birth father an African American…
  • Hugh Savage, Brunswick Formerly 1st LT, CO A, 70th ENGR BN (CBT)
    What If?Read more...In 1966 I was a Platoon Leader and my unit was building guard towers on the perimeter of the 1st Air Cav Division encampment. One of…
  • Alan Wingard, Appleton
    I never served in the military during any war. However, I felt strongly opposed to USA’s involvement in the Vietnam War. I recall a startling moment on TV…
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