March 13, 2023
Jeffrey Matthews’ Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot, first published in 2020, is now available in paperback (University of Notre Dame Press, 416 pp., $29). As Dan Hart wrote in his Books in Review II review the book…
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…
December 14, 2019
Larry Heinemann---the award-winning novelist much of whose work reflected his experiences as a working-class kid from Chicago who was drafted into the Army and served a 1967-68 Vietnam War tour of duty with the 25th…
October 20, 2019
The Vietnam Veterans of America Utica Chapter 944 hosted a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of National Gold Star Mothers’ Day on Sept. 29 at the Gold Star Mothers’ Monument in Utica, N.Y. The short ceremony featured the…
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…
May 18, 2018
The National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP and on Facebook) is offering a free online app for veterans at http://app.nvlsp.org. It is designed to help veterans and their advocates identify the VA disability benefits to…
March 6, 2017
For a book he is preparing, Mike Burns, the author of A Battalion of Angels, and a Vietnam War veteran, would like to hear from folks who, in his words, "experienced some form of Divine…
November 30, 2016
Bill Yancey is offering free digital copies of his new novel, Abandoned: MIA in Vietnam , to all Vietnam War veterans. Just send an email to wbyauthor@bellsouth.net , identify yourself as a Vietnam veteran, and specify…
November 16, 2016
Patrick Sheane Duncan knows war and he knows how to create riveting fiction. Duncan---a Vietnam War veteran screenwriter, director, and novelist (Mr. Holland’s Opus, Courage Under Fire, 84 Charlie MoPic, Vietnam War Stories, Nick o…
October 19, 2016
Thom Jones, a former Marine who gained literary fame in the 1990s for his hard-hitting fiction writing, died October 14 at age 71 . Jones joined the Marine Corps as a teenager during the Vietnam…