Tag: vietnam
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December 05, 2009 06:04 PM EST --
home from war …
a parade … flag waving, hugging, a band
patriotism flowed all round hometown that day
I loved the feeling … I had been welcomed … loved . . .
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January 23, 2008 09:13 AM EST --
My daughter is a hippie born 40 years to late. I'm compileing a CD of "Hippie Tunes" for her.
What do you recommend that I include? Especially Vietnem War era.
Background info on . . .
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July 23, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --
(This is a repost of my original article for a new group I've joined.)
In Memoriam - January 4, 1950 to November 8, 1969
I didn't realize how difficult this was going to be . . .
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May 21, 2008 03:56 AM EDT --
Master Sergeant John Thomas Stone, 52, National Guard, killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. March 29, 2006. Stone was struck in the torso by small-arms fire, according to the Boston . . .
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August 20, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
The following poem kept me awake last night for some reason. Back in 1968-69 I was engaged to a soldier in the US Army stationed in Viet Nam. What is below is what returned. My last memory of us together . . .
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September 03, 2008 11:30 PM EDT --
A traveling memorial of The Vietnam Memorial Wall. This wall really was very moving.
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March 21, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
Sometimes, the goal of a preacher is (or should be) to get people to think about things which they ordinarily wouldn't think about.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003021.html . . .
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February 11, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
He was 17 when he enlisted, so eager to serve his country that he had his father sign him into the army. It was 1967, and there was no doubt that he would be shipped off to Vietnam. . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
Four years of war. I can barely comprehend how many lives have been lost. When I was a child, one of my earliest memories is of my mother crying when she learned the Vietnam war was over. I couldn't . . .
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February 04, 2008 02:38 PM EST --
This was sent to me today. I recommend you read it and forward it to friends and family--especially Vietnam vets. It has some very interesting information about John McCain.
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September 24, 2007 05:53 PM EDT --
Last fall my husband and I decided that we wanted to do something to "give back", because we feel we have been very blessed...not monetarily (yet), but we certainly live charmed lives. So we . . .
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November 30, 2007 02:10 AM EST --
While studying Spanish in Guatemala, I got to meet some interesting folk. Most of these people are beautiful hard working people who struggle to survive. But day after day the government's . . .
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January 19, 2009 08:33 PM EST --
http://www.themovingwall.org/#aboutmw
This is part 1 of 3.
We were fortunate to be in Las Vegas visiting family and friends and happened upon the Moving Wall.
The display signs indicated . . .
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May 04, 2007 04:34 PM EDT --
A New Zealand infantry unit was set up next to an American unit in South Vietnam.
The American Unit had a big sign at the entrance of the camp with the units mascot and unit patch painted on . . .
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September 10, 2007 07:33 AM EDT --
I had a bracelet when I was a kid. My soldier actually came home, luckily. I got another was in Washington DC this year. Did you have one?
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November 11, 2008 01:40 PM EST --
Dear Michael,
Every year I write you, hoping you will see my letter, up there, where you are, with the Angels.
The last time I wrote to you in real life -- just before I left for Europe -- . . .
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November 11, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
made special by our wonderful children.. our future son in law was the first to wish his father a Happy Veterans Day.. followed by our daughter who stopped by to spend the afternoon with us and then our . . .
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May 19, 2006 02:18 PM EDT --
In October 1970, Richard Nixon and the Republican party faced foreboding poll numbers in the congressional elections.
His invasion of Cambodia earlier that year and the subsequent escalation of anti-war . . .
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September 15, 2006 11:38 PM EDT --
First, reflect on the lyrics to this Johnny Cash song, "Drive On:"
I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam
He said is my country just a little . . .
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May 27, 2007 06:01 PM EDT --
This was going to be a tribute and memorial to my brother Jerry. I've struggled the past few days with posting the pictures and letters from his commanding officers, including General Westmoreland, . . .
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