A trip with the 11th Armored Cavalry in 1969 brings back images of the war from that year that have never been seen before. In his strong new book, James Stanish takes readers through the heart of the ...
With the passage of time, history has a tendency to soften its edges. Not so in Images from Vietnam 1969, the powerful new book by U.S. Army veteran James M. Stanish. This unforgettable photo memoir ...
BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...
My boots first stepped down on Vietnam’s soil in midsummer 1969, in between the Apollo moon landing and the Woodstock music festival. I had just wrapped up my teenage years and thought I was an adult, ...
COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (WLS) -- Social media is connecting a Chicago-area family to its roots. A video recently tweeted shows Sylvester Bracey talking about racism while he was a soldier during the ...
Apr. 15—MITCHELL — For more than half a century, Vietnam veteran Jim Anderson held onto a memory — a brief wartime encounter, a father's untold story, and a promise to one day find a book that hadn't ...
CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich. — William Kyle Gowen spent his 21st birthday landing in Vietnam. The year was 1968, and he was a Marine Corps medic. "Stayed there 10 and a half months," said Gowen. "Got three ...
There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...
(MENAFN- GetNews) With the passage of time, history has a tendency to soften its edges. Not so in Images from Vietnam 1969, the powerful new book by U.S. Army veteran James M. Stanish. This ...