Tag: Vietnam

The “Wall That Heals” display, a ¾ scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will stay in Mendota Heights the next three days.

The dap, once banned and objectified, is now as near universal in America as combo meals and streaming services. Co-opted and watered down a generation ago but still maintained in urban dwellings. Its origins, though, are found in the midst of the political turbulence and racial unrest of the 1960s as the Vietnam War unfolded.

Lenny and Larry Hunter have a unique family military history: all three of their brothers served in Vietnam at the same time they did.

SQUINTING in the bright light of a hot summer morning, Vu Thi Thinh perches on the edge of her small wooden boat and plucks a polystyrene block from the calm waters of Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay.

Mark Edward Vanderheid was born in Tonawanda, N.Y., on Feb. 11, 1949. Four months after his 20th birthday, and only six months after he arrived in South Vietnam in 1968, Vanderheid, a U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal, lay dead on the Quang Tri battle field …

U.S. Air Force retiree Michael Sutton said five bushes were dug up and taken from the Vietnam War memorial honoring the 60 Muskegon County residents who died in the war.

John Dooros was training to become an airborne ranger in the Vietnam War when he suffered a knee injury. The Army sent him there as a chaplain’s assistant instead. That may have spared Dooros from the most intense combat during his deployment from 1968-70 …