Music

Free Lt. Dan Band concert honoring Vietnam War veterans in D.C. May 26

May 22, 2023

There are still a few seats left for the Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band’s free Welcome Home concert honoring Vietnam War veterans on Friday, May 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Constitution Hall in…

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‘The Last Thing We Ever Do’ CD by and about Vietnam War Veterans

August 14, 2021

“The Last Thing We Ever Do,” an album of songs based on the experiences of Vietnam War veterans, was released Aug. 8 by Warrior Songs, a nonprofit that helps veterans heal from post-war trauma through the…

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National Memorial Day Concert to feature Diane Carlson Evans

May 29, 2021

This year's National Memorial Day Concert, which airs on PBS stations nationwide at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, May 30, includes a tribute to  American nurses who served in the Vietnam War. Among those…

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Charlie Daniels, 1936-2020

July 7, 2020

The famed country music singer and fiddler Charlie Daniels, an early supporter of Vietnam Veterans of America, died yesterday (July 6, 2020) after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke at age 83. Daniels, who was voted into…

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“The Girl in the Photograph” and “Children of Fire”

December 11, 2019

In 1972, the jazz trumpeter and composer Hannibal Lokumbe was so taken with the famed “The Girl in the Photograph” image of nine-year-old Kim Phuc naked and fleeing a napalm attack in South Vietnam that…

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‘Thunder Mountain’: A Country-Rock Single about a Vietnam War Veteran

November 26, 2019

County music singer/songwriter Rob Appleblatt’s second single, “Thunder Mountain,” is a powerful country rocker that deals with a Vietnam War veteran’s post-war struggles. The song, Appleblatt says, “is about the selfless sacrifice our warriors make for…

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Student Music Query: What We Listened To

January 25, 2019

Grace Powers, a senior at Drexel University, is working on her senior thesis, which she has titled "The Affect of American Popular Music on Vietnam Veterans during War Time." The goal of the project, she…

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Cyril Pahinui, 1950-2018

December 19, 2018

Cyril Pahinui, a renowned Hawaiian lack-key guitar player who was drafted into the Army and served in the Vietnam War, died November 17 at age 68 of an Agent Orange-related lung disorder and pneumonia. Pahinui…

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Memorial Day Writers Project in D.C. May 28

May 23, 2018

The Memorial Day Writers Project will hold its 25th biannual reading on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day, Monday May 28, from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm. The Project's tent will be set up…

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May Screening in D.C. of ‘Vietnam: An Inner View’ doc

March 28, 2018

The new documentary film, "Vietnam: An Inner View," will have its Atlantic Coast premiere on Thursday, May 24, at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C. There will be two screenings of the film, which the…

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