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Award-Winning Doc ‘Just Like Me’ on PBS on Veterans Day

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…

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The Covert Vietnam War Misty Experiment Documentary

June 30, 2022

Review by Kathleen Grathwol As we approach the 50th anniversary of the end of the American combat presence in the Vietnam War, more and more veterans’ stories are being told in memoirs, novels, and documentaries.…

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‘I Am the Curse’: ‘Stranger Things’ Deals with Agent Orange

June 9, 2022

With the release of the fourth season of the Netflix’s sci-fi horror series “Stranger Things” in late May, the topic of the continuing impact of toxic exposure to Agent Orange was introduced to a new…

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John Sacret Young, 1946-2021

June 24, 2021

John Sacret Young, the writer and TV and movie producer best known for being the co-creator of the pioneering TV show, China Beach, died June 3 at age 75 from brain cancer. Young and William Broyles Jr.--a…

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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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Mark Glamack, 1947-2020

June 25, 2020

Mark Glamack, one of Hollywood's top animators, and a Vietnam War veteran, died May 29 at age 73. He was drafted into the Army and served as a medic in Vietnam, and died of complications of…

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‘Bosch’ Season Five is Streaming

April 24, 2019

The fifth season of the detective/thriller series Bosch started streaming on Amazon Prime Video last week.  Bosch is based on the twenty-one best-selling and brilliant Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly, starting with The Black Echo…

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Tim O’Brien on the Vietnam War and Season III of ‘This is Us’

March 27, 2019

Last summer we reported on the fact that the award-winning novelist Tim (The Things They Carried) O'Brien, was hired to consult on the upcoming third season of the popular NBC-TV family drama, This is Us.  That…

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NBC’s ‘This is Us’ and the Vietnam War

July 11, 2018

It looks as though the upcoming third season of the NBC-TV family drama, This Is Us, will have a significant Vietnam War theme. That's because NBC just announced that the acclaimed novelist Tim (The Things They Carried,…

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The Ken Burns Documentary – A Review

September 16, 2017

By Marc Leepson Arts Editor and Senior Writer, The VVA Veteran Ten years in the making. A reported budget of $30 million. A crew of dozens. That’s what I knew about “The Vietnam War,” the…

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