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It took place 50 years ago today. I was twenty years old, and in college. I don't pretend to an exhaustive understanding of the history, but I remember it as the end of the Vietnam War, and as what has become, in the popular understanding, the largely undeserved disgrace of the United States. I knew… Continue reading The Fall of Saigon
This day in history, sixty-five years ago: Army officers MAJ Dale R. Buis and MSG Chester M. Ovnand were the first Americans killed as a result of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Not the Vietnam War that had been ongoing for decades previous, but the one that resulted from American involvement from 1954 and… Continue reading Here’s To the Heroes
Forty-one years ago today, on February 28, 1983, the final episode of the television series M*A*S*H aired. It had almost 110 million viewers, in a world where such numericals were hithertofore unknown, making it one of the most-watched episodes ever. That last episode, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," was memorialized here. It took ten years for… Continue reading Mash Up? Tell Me More