Vietnam War

Newsday's coverage

• Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto: The voyage of 2 'Star Trek' stars

  the cosmos -- over the decades, the sci-fi series in all its forms has tackled earthly issues such as race, gender and the Vietnam War .When it comes to shining a spotlight on contemporary conflicts, the film and television franchise's newest entry, "Star   Read more »

• 'China Beach,' the complete collection, released on DVD

  first and foremost, allowing those stories to illustrate the cultural, political, life-changing landscape that was the Vietnam War. Still controversial when this show debuted 15 years after American troops' departure, still controversial 40 years later, that   Read more »

• Veterans' 'bootprint' widening at LIU Post

  sandbags.Each task paid tribute to one of four Medal of Honor winners from New York, several of whom perished during the Vietnam War .The sprint, Potenzieri said, recognized Vincent Capodanno, a Staten Island native and Navy chaplain who was killed in Vietnam   Read more »

• AP Interview: Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam

  conversion to Quakerism when she was a child. A pacifist, she was a leading voice in the civil rights movement and the anti- Vietnam War protest. She has supported scores of campaigns across the United States dealing with poverty, racism, environmental degradation   Read more »

• Letter: Lost in Vietnam, deceived in Iraq

  someone complaining about revisionist history, the letter writer does a pretty good job himself ["U.S. didn't lose Vietnam War ," April 8]. The Vietnam War didn't start in 1975, it began with the Vietnamese people fighting for independence from France in the   Read more »

Around the web

• Maureen Dunn, Vietnam widow and advocate for POWs, MIAs and their families, dies at 72

  she drew national attention when she confronted Robert S. McNamara, the former defense secretary and architect of the Vietnam War, at a presentation of his book “In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.” “Mr. McNamara, you don’t know who I am,” she 5/18/13 from The Washington Post Read more »

• Frears: Ali film 'isn't about Ali'

  boxer's refusal, in 1967, to be conscripted into the US military, based on his religious beliefs and his opposition to the war in Vietnam. "It's not really about Muhammad Ali," explains Frears, while seated at his kitchen table in his home in west London. 5/18/13 from BBC News Read more »

• Europe’s “Little Guantanamo”: Why The U.S. Wants Serbia To Give Up Kosovo

  without consulting with the government of Serbia and is the largest U.S. military base built outside of the U.S. since the Vietnam War. The site was apparently used for extraordinary renditions and has been referred to as a “little Guantanamo”. This is a very 5/18/13 from Global Research Read more »

• Vietnam vets meet to talk and heal together

  Verne psychology doctoral candidate, didn't always understand her father's anguish from his military experiences and the Vietnam War. He never spoke about his pain, but she knew his spirit was often troubled. Al figured because he didn't tremble, have panic   from Daily Bulletin Read more »

• The price of pacifism: Refusing to go to war is finally being recognised as a brave act

  not to. But conscientious objection did not begin and end there: conflicts since, including the Second World War and the Vietnam war, have involved conscription, while countries as diverse as Finland, Israel, South Korea, Greece, Columbia and Turkey still   from The Independent Read more »