Vietnam war News
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New York City -
The pullout from Afghanistan has required some soul-searching of a rather unambiguous kind. America’s record in guerrilla wars is abysmal. Despite military “success” in some ways, strategic aims are routinely not met.
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Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week began the removal of barrels recently discovered at the bottom of Wallowa Lake marked as containing chemicals used in making agent orange.
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Lately, there has been much discussion of fake news. Much fake news is easy to detect with a little basic research. But there is another type of fake news that is spread by the U.S. and other governments.
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Hanoi -
While visiting Vietnam this week, President Barack Obama criticized the nominally communist government’s human rights record and urged the Hanoi regime to allow greater freedom for the country’s 90 million people.
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Washington D.c. -
Without resisting the laws forced onto them by the British, America wouldn’t exist. The dissent that built a nation is still strong among those protesting police brutality, but as history shows, the attack on protest by the U.S government is not rare.
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According to declassified documents, the NSA spied on civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr and boxer Muhammad Ali when the Vietnam war protests were at an all time high.
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Whitefish -
The Healing Wall, the Traveling Wall replica of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C., arrived in Whitefish on Aug. 22, and will depart tomorrow.
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Though the Vietnam War officially ended in 1975, only now has the general public learned about a father and son who fled the war and until recently were still surviving in a jungle in Quang Ngai Province.
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Music often forms the foundation for society’s perception of events, recording history sometimes as it happens. It has often been used to protest, inform, educate and stimulate emotions, even with controversial figures like Edward Snowden.
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Sydney -
A new study has found that an estimated 2.1 million deaths per year are caused by fine particulate matter. These materials are released into the atmosphere as a direct result of air pollution.
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A US Army Green Beret captured during the Vietnam War 44 years ago has reportedly been found living in a remote Vietnamese village.
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Richmond -
Phan Thị Kim Phúc, known as "the girl in the picture", international peace symbol and global peace ambassador, came to Richmond's The Way Community Church to share her personal stories of survival from atrocities of Vietnam War.
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Sydney -
If there was ever a contradiction in terms, “Congressional leadership” truly defines the expression. The disaster factory is well and truly back in business. After 5 years of massive, humiliating hits to the US economy, they’ve done it again.
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Baker City -
On Saturday, June 9, I attended a special awards ceremony at the 2012 Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally (HCMR) in Baker City, Oregon.
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Toronto -
On the 40th Anniversary of the famous photograph of 9-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thị, taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, we recall the suffering of child victims and civilians in the Vietnam War and the horror of all wars.
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Louisville -
Muhammad Ali is rightly regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, but his biggest and most honourable fight took place outside the ring.
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Few names bring out more negative feelings and comments from many Vietnam Veterans than does that of Jane Fonda, more commonly known as "Hanoi Jane," to those of us who served in Vietnam.
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A girl in the picture, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, 40 years later in The Way Richmond Community Church, Richmond, BC. — Phan Thị Kim Phúc, a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese attack.
The first two names are listed on the date July 8, 1959. The wall begins and ends at the apex so they meet. It symbolizes that the war is complete, having come full circle.
Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road. Ronald L. Haeberle/Creative Commons
Phan Thị Kim Phúc, a girl in the (famous) picture during the speech in Richmond, BC.
U.S. Veterans Johnny Silvercloud
A single rose ringed by US flags rests against the wall. Whether it's for one name or all of the 58,272 lost, we will never know.
Phan Thị Kim Phúc sharing her stories of survival in The Way Richmond Community Church, Richmond, BC.
UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to northeast of Cu Chi, Vietnam. The National Archives. US Army Photo
Flags flicker in the breeze. Placed by loved ones and strangers, the Healing Wall offers a chance to remember and a moment to mourn.
Phan Thị Kim Phúc signing her book in The Way Richmond Community Church, Richmond, BC.
June 8, 1972: Kim Phuc, center left, running down a road nude near Trang Bang after a South Vietnamese Air Force napalm attack Nick Ut
A panoramic shot of the entire wall. Symbols are used to denote status. A diamond indicates a person's death was confirmed; crosses or pluses indicate a missing/unaccounted for person; a circle will be inscribed if a person comes back alive. There are no circles yet on the wall.
Holsclaw was killed in the Vietnam War on July 2, 1967.
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