In 1919, a young Vietnamese man along with some friends drafted a document of civil rights for the Vietnamese people living under French colonial rule. They mailed the letter to the leaders at the ...
Canton native Ronnie Brookshire had just arrived in the jungle of Vietnam when he came face to face with the gruesome job of a medic — a role his Appalachian ingenuity and millworker upbringing made ...
On Wednesday – 55 years, six months and 15 days after what he called his most terrifying day in the Vietnam jungle – he’ll get the second-highest honor of the military branch for “valor in ...
But conditions in the Vietnam jungle often made the band’s missions difficult. The humidity knocked the guitars out of tune, and direct sunlight wreaked havoc on Rainey’s organ. At least once ...