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Many veterans who returned home to their wives after serving in Vietnam had problems reconnecting. Three veterans who experienced marital struggles contemplate how their military service contributed to their painful breakups. [Read Transcript...]
A career military officer, Jerry Newton’s assignment in Vietnam was to collect the data about the number of American casualties. His reports ultimately wound up on the Oval Office desk of President Johnson. But Newton found that politics often entered into how his data was portrayed. [Read Transcript...]
As an Army nurse in Vietnam, Valerie Buchan worked 12-hour shifts caring for a steady stream of young GI’s injured in combat. She explains how her heartbreak over one young soldier who couldn’t be saved changed the way she cared for the wounded. [Read Transcript...]
By testing into Officers Candidate School when he enlisted to go to Vietnam, Doug Bekke achieved a lieutenants rank. That put the Army veteran, still a teenager himself, in a position of responsibility for soldiers who were no older than he was. [Read Transcript...]
