In the first issue of Vietnam magazine, published in the summer of 1988, founding editor Colonel Harry Summers Jr. laid out a clear but challenging mission: “an exploration of the complexities that made the Vietnam War unique.” Those complexities have been explained in succeeding issues with strong research, vivid writing, compelling photography, detailed maps and …
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Shortly before midnight on July 12, 1970, Alpha Company of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment, detected movement about 200 meters below its landing zone on a hill. Company commander Chuck Hawkins ordered his forward observer to engage the enemy with mortar fire. Caught bunched together, the North Vietnamese Army column was broken up. …
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I enlisted in the Army as a 17-year- old recruit from a 4-mile hollow in Hernshaw, West Virginia, in 1955. Years later, when it came time to do my security clearance, I had to own up to my real birthdate. I had changed it from April 19, 1938, to Sept. 9, 1936. I spent my …
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JAN SCRUGGS volunteered for service in Vietnam and suffered shrapnel wounds over much of his body when his unit was ambushed in May 1969. After the war, while studying for a graduate degree, Scruggs researched the psychological conflicts experienced by people who survive tragedies. In 1979 he decided a memorial to those who died in …
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Education Center at Wall Faces Funding Hurdles Jan Scruggs, the force behind the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, is now leading the charge for construction of a privately funded “Education Center at the Wall” to help Americans better understand what happened in the war and appreciate the sacrifices of troops who lost …
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Honor Thy Father I could not put the December 2014issue down while reading “Descent into the DMZ.” John J. Galluzzo made me feel as if I had known his father, Robert Francis Galluzzo. The epilogue was very moving and I was saddened to read of his father’s passing. I am a Vietnam veteran who served …
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