After the international quagmire that was the Vietnam War ... t seem appropriate in the late 1960s and early 1970s — a period marred by an unwinnable war with oblique intentions being fought ...
Henschel, 76, of District Township enlisted in the Air Force in June 1966 after graduating from high school, and served until April 1970. Vietnam War veteran John Henschel is seen with his canine ...
Operation Linebacker II, the "Christmas bombing" campaign of December 1972, was a significant effort by the U.S. to force North Vietnam ... (1948-1960), was generally critical of the American war ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
The U.S. had about 4,000 working dogs in Vietnam for the duration of the war, he said. When America’s troops withdrew in 1973, he noted, the surviving 2,000 or so were left behind. “Only 200 ...
In honor of Veterans Day, a documentary recounting the Vietnam War and the stories of veterans will be screened again Saturday at the Library Center in Springfield. Larry Rottmann was deployed to ...
Many endured as classic pieces of 1960s pop culture ... Meanwhile, Wilson Pickett cut a fainting R&B version in 1970. “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tommy James & the Shondells from I Think ...
Poverty and inequality persisted during the 1960s and 1970s in America. Government policies aimed to address the country’s social problems. The women’s movement developed to campaign against ...