Vietnam Veterans Vietnam Veterans have died by the thousands because of complications from exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange since the war ended. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) "In Memory" program honors those veterans and others who died since returning home from the war but are not eligible for inscription on the [...]
President Reagan Presented the Medal of Honor to Roy Benavidez Roy P. Benavidez On February 24, 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented Roy P. Benavidez with the Medal of Honor. Reagan turned to the press and said, "If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it". He then read the [...]
WWI Bonus Expeditionary Army - Veteran's Day will soon be upon us. It's been said that the Active Duty Military would never take up arms against its brothers and sister veterans. It could never happen - But it did! The WWI Bonus Expeditionary Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 [...]
Vietnam War Summary Vietnam War Summary - Those that have followed our blog know that I deviate from our market news from time to time and speak to a topic that I am passionate about - The Vietnam War. One of my battle buddies sent me the video that follows that represents a summary of [...]
Agent Orange's Dead & Dying Agent Orange - June, 1969, Tan An Province, South Vietnam: We were told to hold off our landing until the C-123’s finished their spraying run on a strip of thick jungle on the river. As soon as they were finished, we flew our Huey into a small clearing [...]
Vietnam War Map Vietnam War The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Dates: [...]
Jeff Daley Milestone Birthday remembering when - The events during the year of my birth in 1946 are interesting, to say the least. It is interesting to compare the happenings of today to those that took placed when I came into this world. Milestone Birthday - A Nostalgic Look of 1946 1946 World News Micheline [...]
The Early Years of Special Forces Special Forces Part 2 - The Early Years - Special Forces (SF) grew out of the establishment of the Special Operations Division of the Psychological Warfare Center, activated at Fort Bragg, N.C., in May 1952. The Army allocated 2,300 personnel slots to make up the first Special Forces (SF) [...]
Vietnam War Part VI - Its History Its Statistics In Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam, and ultimately its increasing involvement in the long-running Vietnam War (1954-75). Myth: The domino theory proved false. The [...]
Vietnam War Its History Its Statistics Part I of VI Part 1 of 6 in a Series of the Vietnam War History The Vietnam War has been the subject of thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, hundreds of books, and scores of movies and television documentaries. The great majority of these efforts have erroneously portrayed [...]