May 1, 2013
Charlie Haughey was drafted into the Army in 1967, and went on to serve as a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division in and around Cu Chi in Vietnam from 1968-69. In Vietnam he had…
March 13, 2013
Lisa Lark, the author of All They Left Behind : Legacies of the Men and Women on The Wall, a tribute to sixty-one American servicemen and women who died in the Vietnam War that she…
February 27, 2013
Air Force Vietnam veteran---and accomplished photographer---Ted Engelmann has a new photo exhibit, titled "Soldier's Heart, " set to open on Friday, March 1, at Anthology Fine Art in Denver. In this new exhibit , Engelmann combines…
February 20, 2013
All military personnel, veterans, and their families are invited to submit their poetry, essays, short fiction, photography, and interviews to be considered for the second volume of Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors , an…
January 19, 2013
In Rudolph Pommer Saxon's novel Expiation (CreateSpace, 362 pp., $9.99, paper) the title is explained early on, well before the first chapter starts. There is no biographical information on Saxon, nothing to indicate that he has…
January 7, 2013
Catherine Karnow, a National Geographic photographer who has been documenting Vietnam for twenty-one years for that august publication as well as for other magazines and books, is putting the final touches on a presentation about that…
November 5, 2012
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="334" caption="U.S. Marine, Hue, Vietnam, Feb. 1968 by Don McCullin"] [/caption] "WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath" is the name of a huge exhibition that opens on Veterans Day,…
October 29, 2012
"Coming Home: Helena Area Vietnam Veterans" is the name of photography exhibit that will be on view beginning November 9 at the Myrna Loy Center f or the Performing and Media Arts in Helena, Montana.…
October 24, 2012
Baynes McSwain, a native of San Marcos, Texas, was killed in action in Vietnam on October 10, 1968. McSwain received a posthumous Distinguished Service Cross for the extraordinary heroism he exhibited that day as a squad…
October 3, 2012
"This is a book of testimony by the product of a 2nd generation Sicilian-American family from the middle class of the Midwestern United States." That, in a nutshell, is how Lem Genovese describes his new…