Vietnam

Reader Input: Don’t politicize Benghazi

May 15, 1975: The “Mayaguez Incident;” 42 brave Marines, sailors and Airmen lost their lives, several MIA with at least three captured and executed by Khmer Rouge force ...

Reader Input: Who will remember?

Who will remember your smile, your laughter, your jokes, stories of home and your loved ones? Who will remember the endless nights, weeks without showers, trying to sleep in wet ...

Reader Input: Who’s ready to take blame?

Re: “Don’t blame seniors for this,” Dale Smith, Reader Input, April 11: Dale, if we seniors are not to blame, then who is? Or rather what is? The Vietnam War ...

Community Portrait: Meadow Vista pastor retires after 21 years of service

Pastor Doug Zike likes to think of himself as a planner. But it’s interesting how a bilingual Lutheran pastor with a Ph.D. in Spanish ended up spending 21 years as pastor of ...

Vietnam vets still comrades

I was in the waiting room of the Auburn Veteran’s Administration’s health care clinic when a man came in to sit across from me. He was wearing a well-worn baseball cap with lar ...

Consider war’s unintended consequences

Rob Howard and Donna Arz have reason to suggest a more balanced reaction to the incident of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses (Journal, Jan. 15). As is well-known in all of our ...

Obama: bought and paid for

You liberals should really get your facts straight about Obama. This guy is a masterful liar and hypocrite. Just remember how he called the Wall Street financiers “fat cats,” t ...

US veterans give their all

I read with interest Mr. Don Hulse’s letter of Nov. 21, “Casualties of war not mere statistics.” I couldn’t agree more. Many combat veterans become casualties years later w ...

Students’ program touches veteran

I would like to thank the principal of the Rock Creek School (Suzanne Flint) for the outstanding Veterans Day celebration held at the school last Thursday. The entire program from ...

Be cheered on Veterans Day

Once again we will be celebrating Veterans Day on Nov. 11. Each year the parade seems to get a little larger and the wonderful crowds who come out to salute the veterans seems to ...