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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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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,…
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…
New HBO Doc on Richard Holbrooke
November 2, 2015
Richard Holbrooke was an important voice in U.S. foreign policy from his first State Department assignment in 1963 as a civilian AID worker in South Vietnam until his death in 2010. Along the way, he…
Documentary Query – ‘American Platoon’ Doc
June 29, 2015
All3Media, a production company that specializes in "unscripted and documentary style programming shedding positive light to our unsung heroes and the storytelling process, " is working on a new cable TV doc called American Platoon…
Big Veterans Day Concert on the Mall in D.C.
October 15, 2014
HBO has been a long-time supporter of America's veterans. The giant pay cable network continues that admirable endeavor with its sponsorship of what promises to be a memorable live concert on Veterans Day, November 11.…