February 27, 2024
An exhibit of photographs taken by the actor Matthew Modine during the filming of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1987 Vietnam War film "Full Metal Jacket" opens March 2 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps…
February 10, 2024
Koehler Books, which will be publishing what promises to be a worthy Vietnam War novel, Mike McLaughlin’s The War You’ve Always Wanted, in the fall, is doing something unique—and pretty cool—in choosing the book’s front…
December 17, 2023
On the evening of December 5, Hachette Book Group sponsored a live session over the video platform, Crowdcast with best-selling crime fiction author Michael Connelly, in conversation with his editor, Asya Muchnick. The subject was…
November 21, 2023
Tim O’Brien’s sprawling, brash new novel has nothing whatsoever to do with the Vietnam War or Vietnam War veterans. In America Fantastica (Mariner Books, 464 pp., $32), O’Brien spins out a careening, Pynchon-esque tale set…
November 10, 2023
VVA member Ron Osgood’s Emmy-winning documentary, Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War, a film that weaves together the stories of Americans and Vietnamese who took part in the war, will be broadcast by many PBS…
October 4, 2023
David Griffiths, a retired journalist who served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, is working on a book, Welcome Home Home, Brother, in which he will examine Vietnam War veterans' experiences after coming…
July 22, 2023
On February 26, 2007, President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Honor award to former Army Maj. Bruce P. Crandall, a pilot who flew for the 229th Assault Helicopter Company in the Vietnam War. …
July 5, 2023
John McDonald, a Canadian-born American Vietnam War veteran who wrote a series of popular novels about the war and its aftermath, died June 20 of bone cancer at age 74. After serving for two years…
June 28, 2023
The actor Frederic Forrest, who died on June 23 at 86, had a long career on the stage and screen. Most of the many newspaper and online obituaries highlighted his Oscar-nominated role as the limo…
June 12, 2023
RENEW is a nonprofit humanitarian organization co-founded by Vietnam War veteran Chuck Searcy, that for many years has worked to locate and destroy unexploded ordnance in Vietnam, as well as to supply prosthetics for Vietnamese…