The newly launched Veterans History Project 
at the Library of Congress is looking for 
people to share their wartime memories, 
whether they were in the military or a 
home-front civilian.

Congress created the Veterans History 
Project by an overwhelming vote in 2000 
to preserve the accounts of men and women 
involved in World War I, World War II and 
the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars.

The project was spurred by Sens. Max 
Cleland, D-Ga., and by Chuck Hagel, 
D-Neb.—both Vietnam vets—and Reps. 
Ron Kind, D-Wis., Steny Hoyer, 
D-Md., and WWII veteran Amo Houghton, 
R-N.Y.

How You Can Participate
The American Folklife Center at the 
Library of Congress is seeking audio 
and video recordings, letters, diaries,
photographs, maps, home movies, 
drawings—anything that helps you 
tell your story.

The center offers advice and sample 
questions to students and family 
members who wish to interview veterans 
for oral histories.

For a project kit, applications and more 
detailed information on ways to 
participate:

• Write to the Veterans History Project, 
Library of Congress/American Folklife Center, 
101 Independence Ave. SE, 
Washington DC 
20540-4615 
• Call toll free and leave 
a message at (888) 371-5848 
• Or, go online to http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets
 

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CARSON CITY, Nev. - Reuben Law, 105, credits good heart genes and lifelong outdoor activity for his apparent status as Nevada's last remaining veteran of World War I. At 102, Frank Buckles still works the fields and drives a tractor at his family farm near Charles Town, W.Va. The two are among fewer than 200 surviving U.S. veterans of the Great War out of 4.7 million who served.

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• Berlin Wall History
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1962 brochure from the GDR
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• Women In WWII & Perl Harbor
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Sunday, June 25, 2000 marked the 50th
Anniversary of Korean War.
• Anniversary of the Korean War,
• History of the Korean War
• Korean War Commemoration
• FREE Interactive Korean War Time Line
• Memorial Day, 2003 - Korean War Story
• Little Known Facts About the Korean War
• An Overview of the US Army in Korea,
1950-1953
• Korean War Web Site
The USO Salute To Heroes of Korean War
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• 50Th Anniversary Of Korean War
• Korean War
Overview of Principal Infantry weapons
deployed by both sides.
• Korean War Project
• The KOREAN WAR
• Korean War Time Line
• Interviews with Korean War Veterans-
My Korean War
Korean Times




• A Vietnam Vet - Memorial Day Reflection.

The Wall
• Run For The Wall
• The Vietnam Memorial.
• Vietnam Veterans Of America
• Veterans of Foreign Wars
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund(The Wall)
• The Vietnam Memorial Still Heals Wounds
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Children of those on "The Wall" revisited their father's footsteps.
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• Many Women Served In Vietnam
• Vietnam War
• Virtual Vietnam Wall Site
• About Vietnam
• The Wall
• Vietnam History Place
• Vietnam History Central





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• http://military.com/
Military.COM:
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Vietnam War, 1954-1968
• CNN Special - Vietnam
Check out Photos from the War..
• CNN Special - Vietnam
The War That Won't Go Away..

• CNN 25 years After CNN Special.
• PBS Series - Vietnam
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming talks
about two new documentaries about Vietnam.
• Remembering Vietnam
• Vietnam Stories Since The War
• Vietnam Challenge
On January, 1998, 78 extra-ordinary Individuals
came together for the Vietnam Challenge,
a very special athletic and goodwill
event covering 1,200 miles through the
heart of Vietnam.

• USATODAY Vietnam tries to lure us back
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• We let cowards define Vietnam War
By John Omicinski, Gannett News Service
• Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
• Vietnam Magazine
• Vietnam
• Kent State-Jackson State / April 23-24, 1995
Emerson College / Div of Communication Studies
25 Year Retrospective Conference
on Kent State and Jackson State,
Aftermath of May, 1970:Commemorations.
{30th Anniversary on April 4, 2000

• VIETNAM VETERAN HOMEPAGE
To honor Vietnam Veterans, living and dead,
who served their country on either side of the conflict.
• GI Search
America's Most Comprehensive Military Search
• Vietnam Casualties Database
• P.O.W. Network
• Gunny's Links
• The Wall - James's Web Site
• Vietnam Experiences.
• A Vietnam Vet POW/MIA
A Bio Page put on the Web
by his Daughter, Kathy Austin Lockton!!
• Robert Collier's Vietnam
• IMAGES OF MY WAR
• Vietnam Resources.
• Legacy & Memories 9/11
• Home Of 3rd BN / 3rd Marines
• Vietnam Experience
• 84th ENGINEER BATTALION (CONSTRUCTION)
ASSOCIATION VIET NAM
• The Tennesee Army National Guard
• Courtesy Of the 84th Engineer Battalion Republic Of Vietnam
• Former Members of the 84th Who Served In Vietnam
• A Memorial For a Friend Who Lost Her Daughter
• Flag and Music Courtesy of Richard Grogan at the Following Link
• Picture Credits go to Alaska Joe His Undaunted Courage To Keep the American Dream Alive
• The Third Marines
• Gecko Country
• Screaming Eagles
This site has the tendency to reach out and grab you!

• Veteran Links
•
Vietnam War Memerial

• Find Lost Vet Friends
• National Gulf War Center



Notes Casualties Even today the number of those killed, military and civilian, in the period covered (1959-1975) is open to debate and uncertainty. To illustrate the problem, below are three reference works by three or more authors listing casualty figures. What is remarkable about them is that the only ones that seem to match are the ones that must be, at best, approximations. None of the figures include the members of South Vietnamese forces killed in the final campaign. Nor do they include the Royal Lao Armed Forces, thousands of Laotian and Thai irregulars, or Laotian civilians who all perished in that peculiar conflict. They do not include the tens of thousands of Cambodians killed during the civil war or the estimated one and one-half to two million that perished in the genocide that followed Khmer Rouge victory

1. Harry G. Summers, The Vietnam War Almanac. Novato CA: Presidio Press, 1985.
U.S. killed in action, died of wounds, died of other causes, missing and declared dead - 57,690. South Vietnamese military killed - 243,748. Republic of Korea killed - 4,407. Australia and New Zealand (combined) - 469. Thailand - 351. The Vietnam People's Army and NLF (combined) - 666,000. North Vietnamese civilian fatalities - 65,000. South Vietnamese civilian dead - 300,000.

2. Marc Leepson, ed, Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
U.S. killed in action, etc. - 58,159. South Vietnamese military - 224,000. Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand - not listed. DRV military - not listed. DRV civilians - 65,000. South Vietnamese civilians - 300,000.

3. Edward Doyle, Samuel Lipsman, et al, Setting the Stage. Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1981.
U.S. - 57,605. South Vietnamese military - 220,357. Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand - not listed. DRV and NLF deaths - 444,000. Combined DRV and RVN civilian deaths -587,000.

A fourth Source, John Rowe's Vietnam: The Australian Experience. Sydney: Time-Life Books Australia, 1987, gives a figure of 496 Australians killed in action or died of wounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

OTHER RELATED VIETNAM PAST & PRESENT

It was a painful and divided time of our generation:

Demonstrations:

•

Granny glasses, headbands, long hair--and the Viet Nam War.
Students gather on the UH campus during Moratorium Day on October 15, 1969.
• KENT STATE-JACKSON STATE Memorial
   

The memorial on the northwest corner of Morris Hall was dedicated in 1972 to the students who were killed in the Kent State-Jackson State riots in 1970. It states, "HATE, WAR, POVERTY AND RACISM ARE BURIED HERE."
• Vietnam War protest
    Anti-War
Last year, awareness of Viet Nam was
little more than the blunderings of Bellingham police and muffled protests by a dissatisfied few.
This year, the question took on a new dimension as the draft board began pulling strings and fifth year seniors began disappearing. The big campus joke was about the prof who gave "V's" instead of "F's" - V for Viet Nam."


• Kent State and the Vietnam War Protest Movement

   
• Kent State and the Vietnam War Protest Movement

From Ohio State University Vietnam War Protest Photographs


From CNN.com archives.
On May 4th, 1970 - National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of unarmed students at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others wounded. Tthe names of students who died at Kent State, so that they may not be forgotten:
ALISON KRAUSE
JEFFREY MILLER
SANDRA SCHEUER

* WILLIAM SCHROEDER
William A. Gordon, Four Dead in Ohio (North Ridge Books, 1995.)

VIEWS & NEWS FROM ASIA & ABROAD
• Viet Nam Net
• Vietnam News:
• Asian NationThe Viet Nam War is also called "The American War" by the Vietnamese.
• Tourist Org. Thailand News
• Bangkok Post
• The Nation

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