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CIA & FOIA & POW/MIA! Oh My!

I found this amongst my dad’s Vietnam stuff. The text reads: Renate Kuhnen, 27, a West German nurse, was taken from a Kontum hospital overrun by Viet Cong in a raid this week in the South Vietnamese city. She is still missing. (Source: Des Moines Register, 7 March 1968) She was captured 3 March 1968 when … Continue reading →

A country boy can survive

Dear Mom & Dad, Well here I am at Camp Radcliffe (it’s our base camp) near An Khe. It’s been raining almost all the time that I’ve been here. The rain stops as fast as it starts but after a hot day it feels good to have that cold water on you. I arrived at … Continue reading →

The GI in Vietnam

Feeling in Vietnam is that most back home, including lawmakers, do not understand or accept the truth that the conflict in Vietnam is war. That the bulk of America considers Southeast Asia with confusion and mild contempt. A soldier returning home from Vietnam will find that people can’t yet point the country out on a … Continue reading →