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 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…
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. …
November 13, 2022
The new PBS ten-episode docuseries, American Veteran, is now streaming on YouTube. What's special about this well-produced series is that each episode focuses on a veteran and a special object he or she brought with…
October 1, 2022
Ron Osgood, the Indiana University Media School Professor emeritus and U.S. Navy Vietnam War veteran, received first place in the Indiana Veterans Art Show & Competition’s multimedia category for his one-of-a-kind multimedia website, "Vietnam War…
September 20, 2022
Retired history teacher Kevin Hardy is a prolific writer who specializes in reviews of war movies. Hardy, who lives in New Iberia, Louisiana, has written scores of in-depth and incisive reviews and essays about American…
June 5, 2022
Judy La Salle had a unique experience during the height of the Vietnam Vietnam War. Beginning in the summer of 1968 she worked both as a charter airline flight attendant (then a "stewardess"), that took…
November 15, 2021
Patrick Underwood’s autobiographical short story, "Guard Duty Vietnam: On the Lookout for the Enemy Within," based on his 1970-71 Vietnam War tour of duty, is dedicated to Vietnam War veterans whose experiences, he says, were…
October 30, 2021
Betty and Ken Rodgers’ brilliant new documentary, I Married the War, which focuses on eleven military wives who have had to deal with their husbands’ emotional and physical wounds of war, will have its virtual…
October 26, 2021
“American Veteran” is a top-quality, four-part documentary series produced by PBS’s WGBH that premieres today, October 26, 2021, on Public Broadcasting stations nationwide. The series is make up primarily of first-person testimony from American veterans…