written by Todd DePastino We continue to receive phone calls and emails from readers in response to John Barber's story about elephants in Vietnam. In that post, I asked readers if they had ever seen elephants being used by the Viet Cong, the NVA, or ARVN during the Vietnam War. George Kniss, who served
written by Todd DePastino Ten miles southeast of downtown Minneapolis and across a busy highway from the International Airport is Historic Fort Snelling, birthplace of modern Minnesota. The Dakota tribe called the site Bdóte, "the place where two rivers meet," and it was their home from time immemorial until their forced exile after the
written by Lawrence Obrist (Lawrence Obrist) In 1968, I served as an Army social work and psychology specialist in Company D of the 25th Medical Battalion of the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi and Tay Ninh, Vietnam. Medical units like mine were where “the score was kept” in the Vietnam War.
written by Todd DePastino Not since our post about the Navy peacoat's demise or our (failed) attempt to define what a Warrant Officer is, have we gotten as much readers' mail as we did in response to John Barber's story about elephants in Vietnam. In that post, I asked readers if they had ever
written by John Barber I've heard of elephants used in the Vietnam War, but I've never talked with a veteran who saw one in-country. Nor did I know anything about how or where they were used. Then, I got this story below from Vietnam Marine John Barber, author of Vietnam Requiem: A Memoir. John
