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March 15, 2008 11:26 PM EDT -- If you ask an average high-school student how many people died in Vietnam, during the bloody war carried by the US over there, they'll answer roughly 58,000 which is the number of American military . . . more
September 24, 2008 10:28 AM EDT -- I strongly urge you to read the recent Gather article by Eban Brooks, "Good God What Have We Done". The article concerns over a thousand POWs left behind in Vietnam and Laos after President . . . more
April 05, 2006 11:10 AM EDT -- A Vermont National Guardsman killed last week in Afghanistan was killed by friendly fire, the Boston Globe reported today. Master Sergeant John Thomas Stone, 52, was struck in the torso by small-arms fire . . . more
September 27, 2007 09:58 PM EDT -- I know other people have reviewed this movie but I had to talk/write about my experience!!  Right away, I loved this movie!  It's about love, friendship, loss, and . . . more
November 15, 2008 10:25 AM EST -- After we saw the Lincoln Memorial, we walked over to the Vietnam War memorial. No one is our group knew anyone that had fought in the war, so I picked a guy in our group & looked up his last name. . . . more
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.      . . . more
Connections
by Barney F.
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July 14, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --     His eyes captured mine but only for a moment. There was no expression, only vacancy. He was standing away from the curb under an overhanging canopy to escape the scorching heat of a . . . more
The Wall (Poem)
by Carole S.
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November 08, 2007 09:34 PM EST -- Carole Shukle Copyright 1999   Ode to the Wall     I touch your cold As death ebony face.   My eyes, like a camera zooming in on . . . more
December 03, 2007 08:37 PM EST -- Today at lunch in school I read Edward Nudelman's article "Boom, the Sixies and Me" and just smiled...and thought to myself, "Oh those sweet years...those years when we wore our . . . more
December 04, 2007 08:01 PM EST -- Today I received an email from Jennifer Hodge at Gather asking me to post my article, "Alaska Bound" to the new group Boom.  So I thought to myself, hey if she likes that one, perhaps . . . more
June 22, 2008 09:04 PM EDT -- I recently had the honor and privlege to present my story- BULLETS AND BANDAGES - at the New Jersey Vietnam Veteran's War Memorial. It is on the Parkway, in Holmdel, NJ. That morning, before . . . more
September 15, 2008 10:51 AM EDT -- Why does Obama think it's funny or valid to mock McCain's alleged computer illiteracy when the cause of said low skills is his Vietnam abuses?  Is this the Democrats' idea of caring . . . more
April 24, 2007 09:51 AM EDT -- Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and writer David Halberstam was an icon of American journalism. He died yesterday in a car crash in California at the age of 73. On Point is speaking today to top journalists . . . more
February 17, 2007 02:32 PM EST --                          A Google search for "Iraq Vietnam" will turn up 113,000,000 hits. Both hawks and doves . . . more
April 22, 2006 01:39 PM EDT --   The Grim Reaper also won the Vietnam war, the Civil war, and all other wars in history. We probably lost more people in the Civil war, which was a bloodbath. more
November 11, 2007 02:23 PM EST -- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson was announced on November 14 as the winner of this year's National Book Award in the fiction category. I was rooting for this to happen, based on my enjoyment . . . more
August 23, 2008 09:41 PM EDT -- Today, I had the opportunity to visit The Moving Wall, which is a moveable, half size replica of the Vietnam War Memorial found in Washington DC. The Moving Wall moves around the United States to sponsered . . . more
August 11, 2006 12:11 PM EDT -- Excerpt from an article about my brush with history.  "AFTER BLOODY FRIDAY, NEW YORK WONDERS IF WALL STREET IS BECOMING A BATTLEGROUND Wall St. Journal, May 11, 1970 A bloody melee last Friday, . . . more
January 03, 2008 04:26 AM EST -- The Death Toll Gets Higher Daily, A Price TOO HIGH... Readers; Please take the time to offer up this short prayer for our fallen Heros: Marines, Soldiers, Naval and . . . more
September 09, 2008 10:26 PM EDT -- So there's Sarah Palin, filmed with a sharpie in her hand, autographing whatever her adoring fans put into her hands: campaign signs, napkins, whatever.  Who's the celebrity now?  I . . . more
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