Introduction   Today’s article is written by my Facebook friend Stephen Ordway. Stephen is a fellow Vietnam War Veteran and a former Green Beret. Many of us are familiar with the Green Berets, a storied U.S. Army Special Forces group, defined by the unique head cover and emblem which sets them apart.   […]

  Dem thit mop mieng hum. (The meat has been brought to the tiger) ~Vietnamese saying                                        A Serious Change of Scenery   I served in the United States Air Force from 1968 to 1972. I served in Vietnam from […]

                                Introduction   Cat Thao Nguyen is a Vietnamese author, currently living in Australia. Cat has written about her family’s harrowing journey from Vietnam to Australia in 1979, fleeing persecution from the communist regime.   Her book We Are Here (Allen & Unwin) can be purchased on-line. The story originally was published in “The Australian”, […]

  Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of […]

To all those who served, anywhere, any time. ~Joe

  It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire                                             Introduction   Last month’s article featuring a compilation of essays and memoirs of the Vietnam War was hugely popular, having been viewed by […]

  In war, everybody loses. Participants sacrifice their lives, limbs and sanity, perpetrators their morality. ~Joe                                              Introduction   This week’s story is a collection of memoirs and writings from a group of people who were involved in or affected by the Vietnam War, in some fashion. Many of the people are my […]

    We are each given an infinitesimal chance at the universe; what will we do with that chance? ~Joe                      The Sixties are forever on our mind           We hear much about the cataclysmic events of the sixties, hardly a day […]

    President Johnson did not want the war to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the south alone. ~William Westmoreland                                    Recruited Allies Many American GI’s who served in Vietnam had contact of […]