Artistic Queries

Proposed Doc on Marine Corps Hero

October 27, 2010

Mario Ybarra, Jr., a 45-year-old filmmaker whose Marine father (above) was killed in Vietnam in 1966 eight days before his son's first birthday, is working on a documentary that honors his father's service and also…

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Author Query: Fonda Thoughts and Feelings

September 13, 2010

A writer of our acquaintance is writing a review/analysis of Vietnam veteran Jerry (The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam ) Lembke's book Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal: Culture,…

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Photo Query: Memorial Tats

September 1, 2010

Marine Corps military photographer Randy Clinton is working on a project documenting memorial tattoos of people, including Vietnam veterans, who have died in war. "I sincerely believe that these tattoos say so much about the…

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A Grunt's Tale: The Screenplay

March 17, 2010

Khe Sanh, 1968 You can get a look at the synopsis of the script for an as-yet unproduced film called A Grunt's Tale at the moviebytes.com web site. The script, written by by Justine Cowan…

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Student Needs Help from Nam Vets

February 18, 2010

Sarah Wells, a student at Loughborough University in England, is writing a dissertation on the impact the media had on the Vietnam War. She is looking for input from American Vietnam veterans who, she says,…

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Attention: 633rd CCS Veterans

January 12, 2010

Robert Romaniello, who served with the U.S. Army's 633rd Collection, Classification and Salvage (CC&S) Company in 1969-70 near Marble Mountain (above), is looking for old war buddies for the combination memoir and history of the…

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African-American Military Info Wanted for Exhibit

January 7, 2010

For its annual Black History event February 25, the Newton White Museum in Mitchellville, Maryland, is looking for information on African Americans in the military, from World War I to the Vietnam War. In you'd…

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Former Military Interrogators Wanted

December 9, 2009

Matthew Alexander, a former military interrogator and a Iraq War veteran, is conducting research on interrogation methods at American University in Washington, D.C., and is writing an unofficial interrogation manual to supplement the Army Field…

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New Doc to Honor Michigan Vietnam Veterans

November 29, 2009

Detroit-based Visionalist Entertainment Productions and Executive Producer Keith Famie will be producing a documentary next year called "Michigan: Our Vietnam Generation." The doc will pay homage to the service and sacrifice of Michigan's Vietnam veterans. …

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Veterans' Stories Wanted

November 18, 2009

PublishingWorks , a New Hampshire book publisher, is looking for submissions from veterans for a book tentatively titled Moments of Honor , which will be published next Veterans Day. The proposed book will contain 20-30…

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