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'What Bronze Star?': Wall Vietnam veteran battles red tape, gets medal 55 years later
App.com | Asbury Park Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the wee hours of Dec. 4, 1966, the Viet Cong launched an attack on American soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base near the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. Mortars began pouring in, detonating ...
How Columbia author Phong Nguyen brings an ancient Vietnamese epic to life
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe best stories grow over time. Some bend the direction of myth, snowballs rolling downhill to...
Centuries-old town of Chatham gets new monument commemorating the Revolutionary War
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA newly installed granite boulder near the Godfrey Windmill at Chase Park will soon bear a bronze...
These Buddhists fled communist Vietnam. Now, in a temple in New Britain, they are celebrating...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Vietnamese Buddhists of the Hai An Pagoda in New Britain have much to celebrate Many of the members are refugees from the country that was ripped apart by war until the south fell to the ...
Ceremony marks unheralded acts of forgotten Black Hawk Down platoon
Army Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe two dozen men sat patiently in blue plastic chairs on warming asphalt. The veterans of battle...
Final resting place: New Bern's National Cemetery honors the 'brave and fallen few'
Sun Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis is the final installment of a four-part series by reporter Todd Wetherington examining the...
A "Shrek"-Like Town, Haitian Revolution, '70s Rock N Roll, And 9 More Books Set In The Past You'll...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years ago1.Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine Release date: June 7 A non-linear epic following five...
Greg Lago, artist of many disciplines, advocate of Thousand Islands region, dies at 74
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMay 9—CLAYTON — The last art piece that multidisciplinary artist Gregory J. Lago worked on is an unfinished wood block engraving, which he had high hopes for. It features a group of angels playing ...