National Policy Institute’s President, Richard Spencer, is scheduled to speak on the University of Florida’s campus Oct. 19. Spencer spoke to WUFT's Grace King and expressed his feelings about the speech, public universities and what his ideal country would look like.
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David Willkomm served toward the end of the American ground-based conflict in Vietnam, and by then, he witnessed a sad breakdown of G.I. morale within his unit. Drug use, racial tension, and alcoholism were all too common, according to Willkomm, who later became a counselor at the Gainesville Veterans Affairs …
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Raymond Harris’ service was unlike that of any other veteran interviewed for this series. He was a member of a unit called MACV-SOG, or Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Special Operations Group. His job was “running recon,” gathering intelligence about North Vietnamese military operations, often behind enemy lines. Harris later …
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Forest Hope hasn’t had a nightmare about his 18 months in Vietnam for the past 35 years, but he said that doesn’t mean he’s done processing what he experienced there. He served in the Marine Corps and stationed in Vietnam from late 1966 until mid-1968. Today, he is the president …
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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 willing to listen about his evolution from well-trained soldier to peace activist. He was twice wounded as a Marine in country, then again by …
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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 massive infrastructure system the United States military helped to build and then left behind. Goldstein was a south Florida judge after returning from the war …
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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 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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A former Marine who grew up in Ocala and secretly traveled to Syria earlier this year to battle the Islamic State was killed while fighting for a Kurdish militia, his father said Tuesday.
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It would be an understatement to say there is no universal agreement that marijuana can be used to treat addiction, but some patients are choosing the flowery herb over the use of more harmful substances.
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Three candidates hope to be elected to Gainesville City Commission to represent District 2.
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