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Memorial Day 2015

By Shad Meshad / May 21, 2015

We’re here again, in this spot where we look forward and back. This year marked the 40th anniversary of the…

By Shad Meshad / May 1, 2015

When published suicide statistics reached 22 veterans a day, Frank Spady said “Enough!” A decorated Vietnam combat Airborne ranger, Spady…

By Shad Meshad / April 8, 2015

So here are the characters: a guy named Frenchy and a guy named Sneaky. Does this sound like a 1940’s…

By National Veterans Foundation / March 18, 2015

A gripping Vietnam War memoir by combat Veteran and stunt car driver Rick Seaman was released by Putnam and Smith…

By Shad Meshad / November 6, 2014

Veterans Day is next Tuesday. Our nation has seen twelve years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war has…

By Shad Meshad / September 15, 2014

It was 1987, a little over ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, when Good Morning, Vietnam opened…

By Shad Meshad / September 13, 2014

“The Vietnam experience changed my life. I knew that if I survived Vietnam when I got back I owed it…

By National Veterans Foundation / September 4, 2014

From the New York Times Thousands of Vietnam-era veterans barred from receiving benefits because of less-than-honorable discharges may be eligible…