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  • Vietnam veteran Richard Valdez helps healing process in San Bernardino

    Richard Valdez is the commander of Disabled American Veterans San Bernardino Chapter 12. He helped create the Veterans' Exploration Garden in Speicher Park in San Bernardino. Next month, he will travel to Sacramento where he will be named the state's commander of disabled veterans. He was wounded in combat in Vietnam. (Rick Sforza/Staff ...

  • Video 526 President Obama visits tornado-ravaged Moore Okla. Vietnam vet walks for the wounded

    President Obama consoled victims who lost their homes to a tornado in Moore, Okla., and checked in on disaster response operations; and a Vietnam veteran inspires a town in California to help the most recent generation of veterans -- those who served in Iraq and ...

  • Wreath-laying ceremony honors local Vietnam veterans

    Debra Daley of Columbia adjusts the bow on a wreath placed next to a memorial stone at Greenwood Cemetery in Lancaster on Sunday afternoon at a ceremony hosted by the Vietnam Veterans of America and Associcates from Lancaster Chapter ...

  • Rubber boom fuelling land grabs in SE Asia

    Vietnamese rubber firms bankrolled by an arm of the World Bank and Germany's Deutsche Bank are driving a land-grabbing crisis in South East Asia, activists said Monday.Indigenous ethnic minorities are bearing the brunt of the seizures, which have affected tens of thousands of villagers and led to the clearance of swathes of protected forests, according to campaign group Global ...

  • Vietnam War Foundation Aims To Give Kids Special Experience

    May 26, 2013 The Vietnam War Foundation in Ruckersville is its busiest during Memorial Day weekend. Nearly 1,400 people visited the site last year and this year will likely top that number. Families, visitors and veterans themselves from all over got to tour and gain more perspective about what it like fighting in the Vietnam war. With lots of authentic gear, guns and planes the main ...

Movie Review

Small Soldiers

With its computer-generated toys that move and speak like real people, "Small Soldiers" will most likely be compared to 1995's "Toy Story." However, what it most closely resembles is "Battlefield," a 10-page short story by Stephen King that appears in his 1978 anthology "Nightshift." "Battlefield" is an ironic, grisly little tale of a professional hitman who receives a package filled with G.I. Joe ... ...

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  • Vietnam vet inspires Calif. town to help the wounded

    (CBS News) LOS ANGELES - A Vietnam veteran has literally been on the march to help severely injured vets from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while this former marine has embraced those wounded warriors. The tiny town of Murphys, Calif., has embraced ...

  • Local veteran William “Joe” Gault recalls his time in Vietnam.

    William "Joe" Gault, a Vietnam Army veteran, is the state adjutant/quartermaster at the Veterans of Foreign Wars State Headquarters in Ocala and is seen at the VFW on Friday, May 24, 2013. Gault was a gunner on a Huey during his tour in Vietnam and has receive the Purple Heart along with several other U.S. Army Air ...

  • Video A Vietnam War photographer shares his images

    During his time as a photographer in Vietnam, Charlie Haughey chronicled the daily life of soldiers in his battalion. Once his tour ended, his nearly 2,000 photo negatives ended up in a shoebox, hidden away. Now, after 45 years, Haughey's mesmerizing images of men battling the hardships and ennui of war are seeing the light of day. Lee Cowan ...

  • A war photographers rediscovered images from Vietnam

    (CBS News) Of all the memorials to our veterans this holiday weekend, one man's long-forgotten photos offer a moving, personal tribute. Here's Lee Cowan: At this woodworking shop in Portland, Ore., Charlie Haughey has become a quiet hero -- not only for the beautiful (and, we should point out, perfect) spheres that he crafts out of scraps of wood, but for his war stories, that he ...

  • Mouawad warns that Qusayr could be Hezbollah’s Vietnam

    Head of the Independence Movement Michel Mouawad slammed on Sunday Hezbollah’s fighting in Syria saying that it is aimed at executing Iranian Agenda in the region. In a press conference he said: "The battle of al-Qusayr is aimed at linking Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese regions to Syrian Alawite-controlled regions in order to divide Syria into enclaves in the ...

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