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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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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