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. …
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…
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 10, 2021
Wayne Karlin---the novelist, author, and recently retired college professor who served in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Marine Corps and whose service in the war and its personal and political aftermath are themes that…
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…
October 21, 2021
Robert O. Muller—better known to everyone in the veterans community as Bobby—will be remembered as the founder, in 1978, of Vietnam Veterans of America. VVA arose from those more-than-humble beginnings to become the only congressionally…
October 20, 2021
Bob Peters, a Vietnam Veterans of America member, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967-71, including a tour of duty working on B-52 bombers in Thailand. Peters, who lives in Leesburg, Florida, also is…
September 28, 2021
The twelfth and latest Association of the United States Army graphic novel in its Medal of Honor series focuses on Roger Donlon, the former Green Beret who was the first American to receive the nation’s highest…