Vietnam Veterans

(Tribune News Service) — During a ceremony at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery last March honoring Vietnam veterans, a Vietnam veteran with an impressive military record delivered the invocation. James Craig "Doc" Glynn was introduced as a retired Green Beret medic and Army master sergeant who served in Vietnam and later in Somalia,…

Brett Kimmins Special to the Asbury Park PressPublished 12:13 PM EST Mar 4, 2020MIDDLETOWN - In the latter part of 2012, Jay Wymbs, owner of Pogue Mahone Tattoo Co., was in the process of moving to a new location on Route 35 in Middletown. He had saved a lot of money and planned…

Skip to comments. The Wall That Heals (DFW TX) VVMF ^ | 2020FEB27 | VVMF/City of Garland Posted on 02/28/2020 8:35:35 AM PST by Svartalfiar The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial along with a mobile Education Center, is coming to Garland Thursday, Feb.…

Election 2020 California Results | Super Tuesday National Results Thursday, February 27, 2020 By Steve Walsh Credit: Courtesy Photo Above: Kim Mitchell, the president and CEO of Veterans Village of San Diego, is pictured in this undated photo. After just 2½ years, the head of Veterans Village is stepping down…

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Eric D. Lawrence Detroit Free PressPublished 1:13 PM EST Feb 27, 2020The U.S. pedestrian death crisis is getting worse.The Governors Highway Safety Association projected in a new report released Thursday that 6,590 people died on or along U.S. roadways in 2019. That would be the highest yearly total since 1988, the same year George H.W.…

Bernie Sanders speaks at a CNN town hall in South Carolina this week. CNN For more than 35 years, Bernie Sanders has insisted that, atrocities aside, authoritarian regimes like Fidel Castro’s deserve credit where credit is supposedly due. This view was epitomized in a 1985 interview where Sanders praised Cuba’s…

Vietnam veteran laid to rest in emotional memorial service in California By RENE RAY DE LA CRUZ | Daily Press | Published: February 26, 2020 VICTORVILLE, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Angie Belden's tears fell onto a folded American flag as her father, Army veteran Gavino "Gabby" Martinez Jr. was given…

We are reminded of our endless wars only when the government wants to invoke patriotism without criticism. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch. There is no significant anti-war movement in America…

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Here’s a word that essentially dropped out of Washington’s dictionary in this century: peace. It used to be part of the rhetoric, at least, of politicians there, but in the era of the war on terror it’s barely made an appearance. In election year 2020, however,…