KSAT honors local Vietnam veterans’ legacy with ’50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio’

KSAT honors local Vietnam veterans’ legacy with ’50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio’

Fifty years is a long time. Memories fade, things are lost, history is forgotten. We did not want that to happen to the men and women from San Antonio who served in Vietnam. It is a country and a conflict that affected so many Americans. It shaped every conflict that came after, and haunted presidents from Lyndon Baines Johnson onward. Saigon was the center of the South Vietnamese government and when it fell, so did the hopes of victory in that …

Vietnam vet reunites with woman he met in 1969 — thanks to AI and a war memoir

MITCHELL — For more than half a century, Vietnam veteran Jim Anderson held onto a memory — a brief wartime encounter, a father’s untold story, and a promise to one day find a book that hadn’t yet been written. Now, 56 years after that fleeting afternoon in Sydney, Australia, Anderson’s long wait has finally come full circle. In April, Anderson was reunited with Robyn (Bond) Wood, an Australian woman he met in 1969 while on leave from Cu Chi, Vie…

A day to honor, thank Vietnam Veterans

GILBERT—Dr. James “Jim” Tuorila, retired from the St. Cloud VA Medical Center in St. Cloud and retired faculty member from St. Cloud State University, was guest speaker at the recent Vietnam War Veterans Day observance at the Gilbert VFW.

MVAA to host Vietnam War-era veteran pinning ceremony in Marquette as part of the 2025 Michigan Veterans Leadership Summit

MARQUETTE, Mich.  –  The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) will host the fourth Michigan Veterans Leadership Summit at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, May 19-21. On Monday, May 19, at the Ore Dock Brewing Company, MVAA will host a Vietnam War-era veteran pinning ceremony for living U.S. veterans who served on active duty in the armed forces anytime during the period of Nov. 1, 1955 through May 15, 1975, regardless of location. A…