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North Korea just fired its first missile in more than 2 months. Here’s what we know

9 years ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un receives a military briefing
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Politics & Policy

We should dismantle our nuclear stash, not expand it

Across the U.S., ICBM silos are just sitting there. They would be the first targets if Russia launched an attack to try to limit our retaliatory capabilities.

9 years ago

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Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The Syrian civil war continues

Guests: Kareem Shaheen, Wendy Pearlman While no longer on the front pages of American newspapers, Syrian civil wa ...

Air Date: November 14, 2017

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FILE - In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, Air Force C-123 planes sprayed millions of gallons of herbicides over the jungles of Southeast Asia to destroy enemy crops and tree cover. The military stopped the spraying by early 1971, but some Air Force Reserve units continued to fly the former spray planes until the early 1980s. Some veterans who flew in those planes after the war have been getting sick, and like many Vietnam veterans, they’re blaming the herbicides they say still coated the planes for decades. Their crusade has been led by a former Oregon resident and Air Force veteran.(AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)
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50 Years After The Vietnam War, Veterans Law Clinic Helps Agent Orange Victims

9 years ago

Lou Farren (left) and Brad Ward both served in Vietnam, and received lungs from the same organ donor.
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Health

Vietnam vets become ‘lung brothers’

Two veterans receive a lung each from the same donor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

9 years ago

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Jim Lonergan and Joyce Windfelder stand beside the Cpl. Charles J. Glenn Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Fishtown
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50 years later, sustaining vivid memories of Fishtowners killed in Vietnam

Five decades later, its caretakers worry about how much longer they can keep Cpl. Charles J. Glenn 3rd U.S.M.C. Memorial going.

9 years ago

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Pennsylvania National Guard veteran Darcel Rideout wearing camouflage uniform and headset smiles at the camera
Health

Suicide crisis reaches beyond combat veterans

Veterans overall have a 22 percent higher risk of suicide than the general population, but women who served are more than twice as likely to take their own life.

9 years ago

Volunteers and residents mingle in Camp Alpha at dinnertime.
The Pulse
Health

Offering homeless vets social support first — before housing

Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

9 years ago

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First-person shooters like 'Battlefield 3' have become very realistic.
The Pulse
Science

How online gaming communities kept two veterans from suicide

The military has a long history of using games in training, but troops also enjoy playing video games during their downtime, and some military gaming communities even help

9 years ago

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Courts & Law

Bowe Bergdahl's sentence: No prison time

During a sentencing hearing Friday, Bergdahl was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, loss of pay and benefits, and reduction in rank from sergeant to private.

9 years ago

Bunkong Tuon and family
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Education

Poem: ESL Lesson

Mrs. D showed us how to conjugate the verb to be: "I am the teacher. You are the students. He is from Cambodia. She is from Vietnam."

9 years ago

WHYY's Lincoln Financial Digital Studio is filled on Oct. 12, 2017, for a public discussion with Lynn Novick, director of PBS'
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Community

Vietnam’s paradox: Veterans and objectors alike can feel like ‘moral deserters’

We accepted that we were free to choose our life’s direction and obligated to choose morally, but our choices were all so unpalatable. There was no exit, no honorable option.

9 years ago

U.S. Senator Tom Carper, D-Del, presented the family of the late Private First Class James Davis, Jr. with the Bronze Star and Purple Heart Medals for Davis’ service in the Army. From left: Senator Carper, James Davis, IV, Tina Davis, James Davis, III, and Command Sergeant Major Donald Catalon.  (Provided)
Community

Delaware World War II veteran honored posthumously

The family of late Private First Class James Davis, Jr., received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals on his behalf, 73 years after he was killed in action.

9 years ago

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly walks past White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to begin speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Authoritarianism 101: Do not question the military

The lowest moment of Trump's latest Gold Star misfire came on Friday when his mouthpiece decreed from a White House podium that military brass should be exempt from scrutiny.

9 years ago

Catzie Vilayphonh
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Community

To understand the Vietnam War, you’d have had to live through it

The Vietnam War impacted much more than its name implies. For people like my parents, we don’t talk about it. Like the American public, we’ve just accepted what’s been said.

9 years ago

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