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In 2017, the suicide rate for veterans in the U.S. was 1.5 times the rate for non-Veteran adults, according to the Department of Veteran Affairs’ Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention ...
The performance art film juxtaposing the history of the Vietnam War with the present aims to keep memories of veterans and the war alive.
The video, which made its online debut in 2012, is YouTube's most viral veteran homecoming video with more than 21 million views to date. In celebration of Veterans Day weekend, the video-sharing ...
On Two Fronts: Latinos & Vietnam is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary by producer Mylène Moreno of Souvenir Pictures, Inc., which takes a comprehensive look at the Latino experience in both the home-front and the battle grounds during the Vietnam War. The documentary, which aired nationwide on PBS on September 22, 2015, is part ...
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...
Jake (played by Danny Glover), a reclusive Vietnam War veteran, has lived in a cabin in the woods of the Pacific Northwest for 35 years, plagued with guilt over the loss of men under his command. His only interaction with other people is when he drives into town to sell firewood and buy supplies from Kate (played by Linda Hamilton).
A Vietnam veteran is an individual who performed active military, naval, or air service in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. [ 1 ] New Zealand Army veteran Rob Munro (left), receiving a Mention-in-dispatch award from Governor-General Patsy Reddy for action in Vietnam.
March 29 was chosen as Vietnam Veterans Day because on that day in 1973, the last U.S. combat troops departed South Vietnam following a lengthy and costly war that made many Americans reconsider ...