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Tom Hennessey, PhD, carries a well-informed perspective on American military history and involvement during the past half-century. He and his father both…
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David Colburn emerged from the ROTC program at Providence College and was eventually promoted to the rank of captain in the Army. He said he didn’t serve…
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Daniel Cromer spent his enlistment in Thailand, never crossing into Vietnam himself. Still, he had a good view of the airborne conflict via dots on the…
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While aboard the USS Coral in the Gulf of Tonkin for the U.S. Navy, Raymond Knisley knew little about what it is his ship was doing as part of the Vietnam…
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His story is well known within the Gainesville veterans community, but after all these decades, Scott Camil will still sit down to show and tell those…
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While he tries to search for the positives of Americans’ involvement in Vietnam, Harvey Goldstein often comes up empty. If anything, it might be the…
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When Ron Oppliger landed in Chu Lai, Vietnam, in 1964, there wasn’t much there. His Marine Corps unit built the military infrastructure over the course of…
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Historians generally connect the significant expansion of U.S. involvement in Vietnam back to an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964. Gary…
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Bruce Lamoureux didn’t serve in country during the early years of the conflict in Vietnam, but his work aboard a ship in the South China Seas gave him a…
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Hear 'Vietnam Veterans: Florida Voices' on WUFT-FM throughout September, with full-text transcriptions of each veteran's story appearing on WUFT.org.