March 21, 2011
The Wayne Writers Forum and Wayne State University Student Services is sponsoring "A Salute to the Music and Literature of the Vietnam War Era, " featuring Vietnam veteran poet/essayist/memoirist W.D. Ehrhart (above) , beginning at…
March 15, 2011
Bob Dylan, who first made a name for himself as an antiwar folksinger in the sixties (Blowin' in the Wind , Masters of War , The Times They Are A Changin' etc.), will be performing in…
March 8, 2011
You can listen to the stirring tune, "The Wall, " written by Vietnam Veteran Timothy Murphy (above) , and sung by Pat Garvey, on line . Murphy, whom we profiled back in 2004 in an…
February 8, 2011
President Richard M. Nixon, who practically based his long political career on being staunchly anti-communist, began the long process of Chinese-American rapprochement with his historic visit to what was then known in this country as…
January 13, 2011
Folksinger/songwriter Phil Ochs was one of the most important artistic voices in the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War. He wrote (and performed frequently) one of the most famous and strident anti-war songs of the…
October 27, 2010
Mark your calendars for November 18, 19, 20. Those are the dates for “…Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008, ” a three-day symposium examining the music of the Vietnam War sponsored by…
September 29, 2010
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again"] [/caption] Bear Family Records , the German music publisher, recently released "Next Stop is Vietnam: The War On Record, 1961-2008, " a 13-CD set containing…
May 4, 2010
The state of Wisconsin is rolling out the red carpet for Vietnam veterans the weekend before Memorial Day with a three-day event known as LZ Lambeau. The sponsors are the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Wisconsin…
July 23, 2009
John Brennan, who served as a Flight Operations Coordinator, with the 114th Aviation Helicopter Company in Vinh Long in 1970-71, is collecting names that in-country Army helicopter crews painted on their aircraft from 1961-73 for…
June 10, 2009
Laurence E. Butterfield, Sr., who served with the 11th Armored Calvary in Vietnam in 1969-70 and was severely wounded on the eve of going into Cambodia in 1970, has been writing songs for the last…