Vietnam
Congress authorizes upgrade of awards, five MoHs and four DSCs possible
Both Jeff LPH 3 and Poetrooper send in word that the annual defense spending bill which Biden just signed includes Congressional approval for the upgrade of some awards. Five soldiers (three from Korea and two from Vietnam) could see their awards upgraded to the Medal of Honor. Meanwhile, four men who were involved in the […]
Vietnam Veteran brothers facing deportation
Last night PBS aired a film title “American Exile” about the two men pictured above. They are the Valenzuela brothers, Manuel and Valente, who claim to be Vietnam Veterans and who were/are facing deportation. Valente has self-exiled (i.e. self-deported) to Mexico while Manuel is still here and working the activist angle. NBC News refers to their […]
Vietnam vet reflects on his time there through letters home
Every couple years I dig out the letters I sent home. I have yet to read them. I’ll probably explore them with my children when they’re old enough to understand. It’s an important part of military service though. As an amateur military historian, I’ve read lots of letters from the front. They really provide a […]
What’s Past Is Now Present
This article is reprinted from Cherries Writers’s blog, and is a reprint of a 1977 interview by Newsweek of someone who escaped Vietnam to get to the USA, after the North Vietnam government had taken over the entire country. If any of this sounds familiar in regard to the way things are going now, it […]
Valor Friday
Today’s subject is once again brought to us by a sort of request from KoB. He forwarded to us the bad, unfortunate news that journalist Joe Galloway died Wednesday morning after having been in hospital near his home in Concord, North Carolina. Joe Galloway is a name many of you will remember. If not for […]
Valor Friday
Steven Bennett was born in Palestine, Texas in 1946 but grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. After high school he attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Participating in the Air Force ROTC program there, at his graduation in August 1968 he was commissioned a second lieutenant. Bennett graduated undergraduate pilot training the following year and was […]
73 year old Vietnam vet beaten to death in broad daylight in mostly peaceful Chicago
Keith Cooper (pictured) survived two tours in Vietnam with the US Marine Corps, but he couldn’t survive Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago. He was beaten to death by two young urban troubadours in broad daylight as they attempted to carjack him. They didn’t even get the car. To their credit, bystanders intervened, but not before Cooper was […]
Horace Jackson – Phony Green Beret
Today, we bring you a ‘Twofer’ in regards to fake Green Berets. For the second one, the Guardians of the Green Beret just published a case on Horace R. Jackson. Jackson will be 75 y/o this month and lives in Corona, California. He is originally from Florida. One interesting aspect of this case is that […]
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