Show times on KCPT for the Vietnam series episodes.
Part 1 Sunday Sept. 17 7:00 PM Deja vu Part 2 Mon. [...]
Part 1 Sunday Sept. 17 7:00 PM Deja vu Part 2 Mon. [...]
FSB Washington held many and varied surprises for us. One hot, dry afternoon a Huey helicopter landed, but so many come and go that I paid little attention. Someone yelled something indistinguishable about the contents [...]
Young capitalist. Randy Barnes photo In September 2017 PBS will broadcast in 10 parts, 18 hours of a Ken Burns production look at to our Vietnam experience in length and breadth, using the [...]
When a convoy or single vehicle stopped on any rural road, Vietnamese vendors appeared, no matter how isolated the location, and often had cold soda for sale. How did they do that? In more isolated [...]
Rice growing in Tay Ninh used dikes to frame the cultivated area of that particular paddy and to hold water inside for the growing season. Land was as flat as Western Kansas wheat fields, so [...]
Deadly diseases were common in Vietnam, and malaria was rampant. Any mosquito could be a carrier, and we had an excess of them. One fine day we were dropped and driven into a swamp for [...]
Indirect artillery fire required three component parts working in concert to deliver rounds where and when they were needed. Accurate fire began with an observer radioing our battery Fire Direction Control (FDC) requesting artillery shells [...]
Vietnamese water, ice made from it and vegetables and fruit washed with it were considered contaminated and should not pass our lips. Twenty-fifth Division Engineers supplied our water, and they said it was safe, but [...]
My first impression of Vietnam was an unusual and pungent smell, along with humidity unlike any in my past life, and I was not even off the plane! The aroma hit me like a knife [...]
Our tank and APC escorted and protected convoy moved briskly west from Tay Ninh toward Cambodia, throwing up a dust cloud as we passed through open rice-paddy country and into an area that had been [...]
FSB Washington was about a 250-foot diameter circle, manned by two Army units. The outer ring was built and occupied by an infantry company, while the rest of the place was designed and [...]