Arts of War
Tim O’Brien at Brookdale CC March 8-9 in N.J.
March 7, 2009
Tim O'Brien, the acclaimed novelist (Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, et al. ) and Vietnam War veteran who teaches at Texas State University, San Marcos, will take part in two events on Sunday,…
D.C. Writer's Center Veterans Writing Workshop
March 6, 2009
The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland (just outside of the nation's capital) will hold a second veterans’ writing workshop April 6-May 18. This free, six-week prose-writing workshop is aimed at active-duty troops, veterans, and their…
Online Grandson of the VVA Vets’ Survival Guide
March 6, 2009
Back in 1985, Vietnam Veterans of America's legal team was the primary force behind The Viet Vet Survival Guide: How to Cut Through the Bureaucracy and Get What You Need--And Are Entitled To . That…
HBO Honors Veterans
March 5, 2009
HBO, whose Chairman and CEO Bill Nelson served a tour of duty as an infantryman in Vietnam (and is a member of Vietnam Veterans of America), has long had a special affinity for America's veterans.…
In the Electric Mist on DVD
March 4, 2009
The novelist James Lee Burke introduced his troubled Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux in In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (1993), a terrific novel in which Dave's horrendous experiences in the Vietnam War revisit him…
Jimmy Lloyd Rea's "Vietnam Blues"
February 26, 2009
Jimmy Lloyd Rea, the long-time blues musician from Oregon, has added his song, "Vietnam Blues, " to his Myspace page . Rea wrote and recorded the song "some years ago for anybody that had been…
One Red Flower
February 20, 2009
Tonight, Friday, February 20, is the first of ten performances at the Kensington Arts Theatre in Kensington, Maryland, of One Red Flower, new musical play inspired by the book, Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam…
HBO’s Taking Chance: One Great Film
February 20, 2009
The moving HBO film Taking Chance , which will debut on Saturday, February 19, is a beautifully made, powerfully acted story about a 19-year-old Marine’s final journey home from the war in Iraq. With this…
PTSD Help on Line
February 19, 2009
A website run by Bill DeFoore, angermanagementresource.com, has a page devoted to PTSD. It's set up for veterans to learn more about PTSD, to tell their stories, and to communicate with each other. DeFoore, an…
Long Binh Post Film Wanted
February 13, 2009
Greg Stern is a TV producer whose late father served at Long Binh Post from 1968-69. After his father's death two years ago Stern found hundreds of pictures and letters and hours worth of recorded…