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This veterans memorial stands at Wrightsville's American Legion Post #469. It is easily seen. Just start across Veterans Memorial Bridge, aka, the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. Also of interest ...
He is among 51 Black veterans to serve in the Civil War and subsequent conflicts buried in Mount Pisgah. The breakdown: Civil War, 12; buffalo soldiers, 2; Spanish-American War, 2; World War I, 14 ...
Some of the 20th century’s most defining pop music emerged from the period during which the Vietnam War was fought — and in the installment of the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick docu-series The ...
As we rethink the Vietnam War, we have to grapple with its racial implications. Ken Burns may not sentimentalize Vietnam, but he continues to whitewash the role of race in the conflict.
In the final episode of ‘The Unauthorized History of the Vietnam War,’ the fall of Saigon comes into focus, as well as the developing relationships between the U.S. and Asian nations like ...
For 10 nights on PBS, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's "The Vietnam War," 10 years in the making and 18 hours in length, tells the story of a war "begun in good faith by decent people, out of fateful ...
Fifty years after the end of the war, Hanoi says nearly 200,000 Vietnamese soldiers are still missing. Some of their families are now calling on the U.S. to help find them.
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach … ...