Vietnam
Phony SEAL Coward
The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on Leslie Radford Coward. Coward lives in Middleburg, Florida and is 72 years old at the time of this writing – January 2022. Coward is originally from Ohio and may still have a residence there in addition to Florida. Most of Coward’s claims are implied by the […]
Valor Friday
My least favorite Valor Friday posts to sit down and write are like this week’s. When I get word that a recipient of a high valor award has passed away, I like to honor them by making them my week’s subject. Today I’ll be discussing the heroism of Gary Beikirch, who unfortunately passed away this […]
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 […]
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