Arts of War

May 25 Chicago Screening of ‘Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War’

June 5, 2022

VVA member Ron Osgood’s Emmy-winning documentary, Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The America War, a film that weaves together the stories of Americans and Vietnamese who took part in the war, will be shown on…

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Jewish Americans in Military Service During Vietnam Exhibit in D.C.

June 5, 2022

“Jewish Americans in Military Service in Vietnam” is the title of a new exhibit that opened May 5 at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History at the headquarters of Jewish War Veterans of…

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A Unique Way to Tell a Unique Vietnam War Story

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…

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McCloud Receives History Award

May 10, 2022

Bill McCloud, a member of Vietnam Veterans of America who served with the 147th Assault (Support) Helicopter Company in Vietnam in 1968-69 and today teaches U.S. History and Political Science at Rogers State University in…

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Operation Babylift 47th Anniversary Tribute

April 14, 2022

On Sunday, April 24, at 6:00 p.m. the Pan Am Museum Foundation and Holt International, the international child adoption agency, will host a 47th Anniversary Tribute to Operation Babylift, the April 1975 evacuation of war-orphaned…

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‘Dogs of War and Peace’ Exhibit Opening March 16 in NYC

March 15, 2022

The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in New York City opens a new exhibit, "Dogs of War and Peace," tomorrow, March 16, 2022, at its headquarters at 101 Park Avenue. The exhibit consists…

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Thich Nhat Hanh, 1926-2022

January 24, 2022

Thich Nhat Hanh, the world-renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, died January 22 at his home in the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue after a long illness at age 95. A scholar, poet, teacher, and political figure,…

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Author Query: Remembering Martin Luther King & the Vietnam War

November 29, 2021

Mike Selby, a Canadian librarian, newspaper columnist, and the author of  Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South, is working on a book about Martin Luther King Jr. and…

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Online Short Story: ‘Guard Duty in Vietnam: On the Lookout for the Enemy Within’

November 15, 2021

Patrick Underwood’s autobiographical short story, "Guard Duty Vietnam: On the Lookout for the Enemy Within," based on his 1970-71 Vietnam War tour of duty, is dedicated to Vietnam War veterans whose experiences, he says, were…

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Wayne Karlin Pre-Veterans Day Talk on the Vietnam War and His Work

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…

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