• Episode Eight | The Vietnam War I was channel surfing earlier this afternoon and stumbled across Ken Burns’ Ep 8 of his Vietnam War series on a [...]

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• Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is another of those “must [...]

  Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam – a Goodreads review

  8 January 2018
• Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War by James Edward Wright My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hmm… this book is a bit difficult to [...]

  Enduring Vietnam by James Wright – a Goodreads Review

  1 December 2017
• Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz My rating: 5 of 5 stars [...]

  Backfire by Loren Baritz – a Goodreads Review

  10 November 2017

• Dazzling, Powerful, Breathtaking, Giant, Monumental, Magnificent, Extraordinary, Ambitious, Brilliant, Vivid, Gripping, Poignant, Intense, [...]

  A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin – a Commentary

  8 April 2014
• Well, I don’t know how it is in your neck o’ the woods, but it seems as though summertime has arrived in Florida. It’s HOT! [...]

  Summertime! Summertime! Summertime!

  23 April 2011
• In the paper the other day, I saw a sad statistic… there’s a suicide every 36 hours among our U.S. servicemen and women. What is [...]

  Why Are We Over There?

  11 April 2011
• On this morning in 1941, one nation spent men and matériel to destroy the same of another nation. In your neighborhood, it’s called murder [...]

  Pearl Harbor, 69 Years of Infamy

  7 December 2010