May 23, 2012
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lewe Barnett, 2006"] [/caption] On Monday, May 28, Memorial Day 2012, the Memorial Day Writer's Project one again is hosting a group of veteran writers, poets, songwriters, and singers--many of them…
March 14, 2012
Michael Hossack, the long-time drummer for the classic rock band the Doobie Brothers, died March 12 after a long battle with cancer. He was 65 years old and served in the U.S. Navy during the…
February 24, 2012
Shelley Griffith, a Vietnam Era veteran who is a physician in Tennessee, has posted a music video of his song, "Beyond the Wall, " a tribute to Vietnam veterans, on YouTube . Dr. Griffith is…
August 12, 2011
Bob Burns, who served two tours in Vietnam with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 128, has written and recorded "Forgotten Heroes, " a ballad that is a moving tribute to those of us who served in…
July 11, 2011
VVA Life member Dennis "Doc" Hodo (above ) has been named the No. 1 folk singer in St. Louis on the ReverbNation.com web site (where you can also listen to twenty-two of his songs). Hodo,…
June 1, 2011
On his current U.S. tour, Paul Simon, who is getting raves everywhere, has included his rendition of the venerable reggae singer Jimmy Cliff's bouncy but blunt antiwar song "Vietnam." Legend has it that Bob…
May 17, 2011
The National Veterans Recovery Center Project, which is raising funds to build a nonprofit holistic treatment facility for veterans with PTSD on the site of the former VA Hospital facility in Knoxville, Iowa, will old…
April 27, 2011
Billy Bang, a jazz violinist whose critically acclaimed 2001 album, "Vietnam: The Aftermath, " was inspired by his tour of duty as an Army draftee, died April 11 at his home in Harlem, New York,…
April 15, 2011
The Memorial Day Writers’ Project open mike on the Mall--that's the Mall in Washington, D.C., adjacent to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial---will take place this year from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 30. Vietnam War…
March 30, 2011
Last November we reported on the new opera Glory Denied, which is based on the 2001 book of the same name by Tom Philpott. The book and opera tell the amazing story of Col. Floyd James “Jim”…