Gun Trucks of Vietnam | Smithsonian Channel


The Viet Cong put a bounty out on the gun truck called “Brutus”.

A little known aspect of combat in Vietnam where ordinary citizen boys became heroes.

https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/gun-trucks-of-vietnam/0/3462307

The Eight Women on The Wall: Nurses Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice


Amen…

VVMF's avatarYour Stories. Your Wall.

The names of eight women, all nurses (seven from the Army and one from the Air Force), are inscribed next to their fallen brothers on The Wall in Washington, D.C.

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Each dedicated themselves to taking care of the wounded and dying.

See their faces and remember their names. These are their stories.

1st Lt. Sharon Ann Lane of Canton, Ohio.

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1st Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, U.S. Army was killed by a rocket explosion on June 8, 1969, less than 10 weeks after she arrived in Vietnam. Assigned to the 312th Evacuation Hospital, 1LT Lane was working in the Vietnamese ward of the hospital when the rocket exploded, killing her and her patients. She was from Ohio and her name can be…

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Oo-rah


Happy birthday to all our Marines out there… and remember those who aren’t.

Life Well Lived


Oldest Marine who fought on Iwo Jima has passed away at 103… RIP, sir.

https://trib.al/snFWCcn

Diminished Honor


It is said the Navy is never wrong but it can be a little short on being right at times.