Fifty years ago, on the last day of April,1975, the Vietnam War ended when the North Vietnamese Army overwhelmed Saigon. It was also the dayRead More
Author: FredinVietnam
Fifty-two years ago, the Christmastime night sky over North Vietnam was not an idealized, star-studded obsidian wonderland. Beginning on December 18, 1972, American B-52 aircraftRead More
August 18, 1969, fifty-five years ago today, I was supposed to be at the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York with my buddies. But insteadRead More
Early on March 16, 1968, the massacre of hundreds of innocent women, elderly men and children by US soldiers in the tiny hamlet of MyRead More
This time of year folks will say to me, and to countless thousands of other military veterans: “Thank you for your service.” I hear itRead More
54 years ago this day, the heartlessness of the Vietnam War came home to America: four dead, eight wounded at Kent State University in Ohio.Read More
Imagine strolling past the Boston home of Paul Revere, and not having a clue. Not likely, right? But in Ho Chi Minh City, revolutionary historyRead More
Sgt. Randy Sanders was trim, fair-haired, well tanned and never shut up once. That’s how I remember my seatmate on the “Freedom Bird” flight homeRead More
The Zodiac calendar says the Year Of The Ox/Buffalo has arrived. But in Vietnam, despite the Tet Lunar New Year, the page has not turnedRead More
The spring 1971 air-mobile assault along the Laotian border was the last major offensive of the Vietnam War for US and South Vietnamese troops. Thanks toRead More