Veterans' Voices Vietnam

A year after Tom Dimond was arrested at a celebrated protest of the Vietnam War, he was drafted into the Army. Once he was in the service, the St Paul native found that he was not alone in his opposition to the conflict. [Read Transcript...]

Many Vietnam veterans felt alienated as they returned home, enduring insults related to their service in an unpopular war. Veteran Pat Logan even felt the disdain of older veterans who disparaged his service. That prompted him to get involved with veteran’s organizations to change them from the inside [Read Transcript...]

Years after the war ended, it continued to claim casualties. Thousands of soldiers exposed to Agent Orange, the chemical used to defoliate the jungle, suffered from a range of illnesses, many of them deadly. Former Marine Jerry Relph is one of them, diagnosed with cancer linked to Agent Orange. [Read Transcript...]

Jerry Newton in was in the midst of his Army career when he was given his most difficult and dreadful assignment: he was the officer who notified families when their soldier sons were killed in combat. What he experienced prompted him to volunteer to go to Vietnam; he figured even serving in the war zone … [Read Transcript...]