My writing group, The Pen and the Sword, considers topics related to any war, but the Vietnam War in particular. Our theme at the
August 7, 2023
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I enlisted in the Army at the height of the Vietnam War—1967. I came from a southern family with a strong military background
July 10, 2023
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Arnold Isaacs in his 2023 Salon piece described “perceptions and opinions on both sides of the argument” about the U.S. role in Vietnam offering
July 6, 2023
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In the decades since the end of the Vietnam War, while other wars have followed and the world has changed, discussion of the Vietnam
June 27, 2023
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You’d think, after giving it more than 50 years, that we, the Vietnam War Generation, would have managed to make some sense of it.
June 26, 2023
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Years ago I used a device to help me teach about good writing, although the device in question might be insulted by the term.
February 17, 2022
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I wanted to get us to Friendship Village, the rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Hanoi, founded by an American veteran and once again
February 17, 2022
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It is March 1969 in a place west of Saigon that the men called the Tobacco Field. They also called it Ambush Valley. Civilians
February 16, 2022
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This was an introduction to Seeking Quan Am that I kept for a long time before going in a different direction.
Mark Smith and I