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 Newman was there. Today, he is president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1059, as well as Chapter 1080 in Union Correctional Institution. The past …
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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 perspective on Navy operations as an enlisted man. He serviced airplanes before they took off and after they returned, serving 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.
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