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	Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia (VVAA) had its advent in the Vietnam Veterans Action Association formed in the late 1979 as a result of the perceptions of Vietnam veterans that exposure to chemicals was causing problems with their health and the health of their children.
		The Vietnam Veterans Counselling Service was established as a direct result of the action of the VVAA, and it is now an integral part of treatment regimes, not only for veterans, but also for the survivors of traumatic events such as the Port Arthur Massacre.
		Vietnam veterans have reached the highest level of business, professional and political ranks within Australia, and every one of them who has overcome psychological or health problems in order to raise a family and live a relatively normal life has overcome adversity in order to achieve.
	www.vvaa.org.au (911 words)

	Part III - Will the Real Vietnam Vet Stand Up? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vietnam was the class war, the war in which wet-behind-the-ears, poor, uneducated, minority men were chopped to pieces while college boys thumbed their noses at them in campus antiwar protests.
		In the mid-1980s VietNow, one of the first Vietnam veterans' organizations to receive a VA grant for delayed stress counseling, put out a pamphlet claiming that over 70,000 Vietnam vets were behind bars, while over 200,000 were on probation, parole, or out on bail.
		A Vietnam veteran was more likely to have gone to college than a man of his age not in the service; nearly 30 percent of Vietnam vets had some college education, versus 24 percent of the U.S. population.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=1999/6/14/115533 (1444 words)

	Vietnam Vet Prepares for Modern Warfare
		With gear in hand Kundrat deployed to Vietnam in 1967 to be a rifleman with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment.
		After a year of combat duty in Vietnam, to include firefights in Khe Sahn, the Rock Pile and Dong Ha, he was medically evacuated with a case of malaria.
		Kundrat, a Baltimore native, was deployed to Vietnam with 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment in 1967 and will soon deploy to Iraq in support of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Operations.
	www.marforres.usmc.mil /Archive/2004.07/vietnamvet.html (685 words)

	Vietnam Travel for Vietnam Veterans
		TOP Vietnam Veterans is a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 by a Marine Vietnam veteran, as a means to help veterans, their families, and surviving family members recover from the trauma of the Vietnam war.
		Vietnam Veterans and families have opportunities to participate in a Tour Of Peace to Vietnam, or a trip to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Montagnard villagers say "Cam on.
		The number of participants and sponsorships for Vietnam travel and trips to The Wall are limited, applications should be submitted as early as possible.
	www.topvietnamveterans.org /necklace.html (486 words)

	Vietnam veteran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vietnam veteran is a phrase used to describe someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.
		The term is usually associated with veterans who were in the armed forces of South Vietnam, the United States armed forces and countries allied to them, whether or not they were actually stationed in Vietnam during their service.
		There are persistent stereotypes about Vietnam veterans as psychologically devastated, bitter, homeless, drug-addicted people who had a hard time readjusting to society, primarily due to the uniquely divisive nature of the Vietnam War in the context of U.S. History.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_veteran (1088 words)

	Monuments & Memorials -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
		The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization formed to establish the memorial, was the idea of Jan Scruggs, a former infantry corporal during the war.
		It was incorporated on April 27, 1979, by a group of Vietnam veterans in Washington, D.C. The founders wanted Vietnam veterans to have a tangible symbol of recognition from American society.
		By separating the issue of those who served in Vietnam from that of U.S. policy in the war, the group hoped to begin a process of national reconcilliation.
	www.tourofdc.org /monuments/VVM (880 words)

	Vietnam Vet Attempts to Restore Soldiers' Valor
		To all too many, the 53-year-old laments, the typical Vietnam veteran is a hair-trigger, ponytail-adorned pot smoker who, if he has a place he can call home, has a marginal job where he sulks and occasionally mumbles about an unjust war that took the lives of a disproportionate number of fls.
		And those facts, painstakingly unearthed in years of research, demonstrate that Vietnam vets are better employed than others of their generation, are more likely to have a college education and own a home, have lower incarceration and suicide rates, and, in a revelation that's sure to shock many, have a lower drug-addiction rate.
		A TV reporter approached Burkett, saying she wanted comments from Vietnam vets and motioning to the colorful uninvited group.
	www.mystae.com /reflections/vietnam/valor.html (2144 words)

	vietnam vet brings story to classroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vietnam Veteran, Mumford native and Cal-Mum High School graduate Robert Rapone spoke with Cal-Mum eighth grade students in Mrs.
		In February 1967 he left for a nine-month tour of duty in Vietnam and returned for a second tour in January 1968.
		Rapone told the story of how he was looking through various books about the Vietnam War in a store one day when he opened one of them and saw that the photo on the page was of him.
	www.cal-mum.com /vietnam05.htm (240 words)

	Vietnam War Quiz: Vietnam Vet Psychos on Film
		A crippled, insane Vietnam vet traps a couple in a secluded beachhouse and terrorizes them with his dogs.
		Crazy from witnessing a Viet Cong rape and murder, a Vietnam vet returns to the States, steals a stack of dynamite, and bombs sweethearts in their cars.
		A Vietnam veteran goes on a brutal rampage to avenge the killing of a fellow vet.
	www.vietnamwar.net /psychos.htm (374 words)

	Pasco: Vietnam vet still works to keep his men united
		Vietnam vet still works to keep his men united
		SPRING HILL - The Vietnam War will never stop replaying in the minds of some veterans, and Ray Wing is one of those.
		Wing said his goal is to show one small group of vets that their work and sacrifice were valued.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/11/29/Pasco/Vietnam_vet_still_wor.shtml (818 words)

	Letters from a Vietnam Vet: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The memorial would honor the men and women who served in Vietnam as well as the those that lost their lives in the conflict.
		Your task is to design a memorial that helps our community remember the significance of the war, the sacrifices (costs) of the war, the people who served in the war, and those who gave their lives in the war.
		Vietnam Veterans' War Records: This site will help you locate individuals who fought in the Vietnam War.
	www.ehhs.cmich.edu /~rmscott/Vietwebquest.html (1209 words)

	Viper's Vietnam Veterans Pages, A Vietnam Veteran and Proud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning.
		Campbell co-founded the Philadelphia chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and, in 1971, he was one of Kerry’s key war crimes "witnesses," one of several on whom Kerry claims he based his Senate testimony.
		He is the Director and President of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, Inc., an organization created to better educate and inform the public about the Vietnam War, its events, its history, and the men and women who sacrificed to serve their country.
	members.aol.com /viperash50/page2/index.htm (4514 words)

	Updated Vietnam Vet PTSD Numbers - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The report, published in the journal Science and viewed by experts as authoritative, found that 18.7 percent of Vietnam veterans developed a diagnosable stress disorder that could be linked to a war event at some point in their lives, well under the previous benchmark number of 30.9 percent.
		And while the earlier analysis found that for 15.2 percent of the veterans the symptoms continued to be disabling at the time they were examined, the new study put that figure at 9.1 percent.
		Although some may have a problem that the percentage of Vietnam vets diagnosed with a stress disorder such as PTSD has 'officially' dropped from 30.9% to 18.7%, that figure still represents a lot of people.
	ptsdcombat.blogspot.com /2006/08/updated-vietnam-vet-ptsd-numbers.html (824 words)

	sgtmajor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vietnam Vet is not a title, it is a statement.
		Of the 18- to 35- year- olds surveyed, only 11% viewed Vietnam vets as "generally successful people who have made positive conribbutions in their post-war lives." Some 71% see them as emotionally or psychologically troubled people, and 51% responded that movies or television had influenced their idea of what these vets are like.
		Today's youth must be better-educated in all aspects of the Vietnam War to avoid developing into adults with damaging misconceptions about the conflict and the men who fought it.
	sgtmajor.homestead.com (392 words)

	Vietnam Military Veterans - Vietnam Vet interrupts U.S.-Vietnam friendship meeting
		WASHINGTON - “That’s life,” Vietnam’s prime minister said after security officers hustled a balding, shouting protester believed to be a Vietnam veteran away from the head table at a gala dinner celebrating friendship between Vietnam and its one-time enemy, the United States.
		The speech by the prime minister, the first head of Vietnam’s communist government to visit the United States, was much in the same vein.
		After the prime minister spoke, John Wheeler of New Castle, Del., another veteran of the Vietnam War, handed a reporter his card as chairman of an organization called “Vets for Friendship With Vietnam.” He said many of his old comrades in arms feel as he does, not as the man who interrupted Tuesday night’s festivities.
	www.veteranstoday.com /article605.html (696 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vietnam vets in Iraq see 'entirely different war' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They once were the backbone of that part-time force, but today fewer than 20,000 remain in uniform from the Vietnam era, a definition that also includes many who never actually served in that theater, according to the National Guard Bureau.
		For the Vietnam veterans, this is not a trip down memory lane, though there's the occasional reminder of old times.
		In Vietnam, pen on paper through the U.S. mail was their main link to home.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-06-20-iraq-vietnam-vets_x.htm (2092 words)

	What is a Vietnam Vet
		The suicide rate for Viet Nam Vets is 86% higher than the national average of peers of the same age group.
		Normally you would never know he was a Viet Nam Vet because he or she would never share that with you.
		If you know a Viet Nam Vet please thank him or her for the sacrifice he or she made and is still making and welcome him or her home at last.
	www.capveterans.com /caprd_004.htm (977 words)

	SwiftVets.com :: View topic - Vietnam Vet doctor's letter to WashTimes
		John Kerry has presented his Vietnam record as his major qualification to be president of the United States.
		If all the senator's claims about his four months in Vietnam are factual, it would be to his great advantage to facilitate such scrutiny.
		Kerry volunteered to go to Vietnam misleads: He apparently volunteered only after the draft deferment he had applied for was turned down -- thus allowing him to choose service in the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army.
	www.swiftvets.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6397 (1177 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Memorial Home Page
		The Vietnam Veterans Memorial recognizes and honors the men and women who served in one of America's most divisive wars.
		The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a place where everyone, regardless of opinion, can come together and remember and honor those who served.
		The Vietnam Veterans Memorial accomplishes these goals through the three components that comprise the memorial: the Wall of names, the Three Servicemen Statue and Flagpole, and the Vietnam Women's Memorial.
	www.nps.gov /vive/home.htm (184 words)

	America's War in Vietnam: 1954 to 1973
		In order to understand American involvement in Vietnam, we need to remember that Vietnam was a rare failure for the United States.
		By the late 1950s, the top CIA official in South Vietnam, Edward Lansdale, described the emerging government of South Vietnam as "an emerging fascist state." This was supposedly the independent, democratic South Vietnam that Johnson said America was supporting.
		Feeling his enemies and the increasing American opposition to the war in Vietnam is a threat to the nation, Nixon decides to use the power of the government to crush his enemies.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/vietnam.htm (4176 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| One Vietnam vet's Iraqi mission
		DeWayne Browning is one of a small number of Americans uniquely qualified to compare the Vietnam and Iraq conflicts, having served in both as a helicopter pilot.
		With George W Bush visiting Vietnam for the first time this week, the recently retired pilot spoke to the BBC News website about his efforts, second time around, to bring some humanity to the horror of war.
		Making a fuel stop in Dallas en route to the West Coast, he and his comrades were welcomed home by a crowd of complete strangers who offered them their mobile phones to call home and free lunches.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6147858.stm (1020 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
		Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry is part of the editorial division of the on line
		Sen. Kerry, the "noble statesman" and "highly decorated Vietnam vet" of today, is a Far cry from Kerry, the radical, hippie-like leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in the early 1970s.
		Soon after Kerry, as a Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) commanding a Swift boat in Vietnam, was awarded the Silver Star, he used an obscure Navy regulation to leave Vietnam and his crew before completing his tour of duty.
	www.usvetdsp.com /jf_kerry.htm (590 words)

	Vietnam Links
		Research the Vietnam War and experience the most unforgettable age in history.
		Vietnam Experience The - a collection of thoughts memories and pictures from the publisher of the 26 volume book series.
		Vietnam Memorial Wall Washing Voluteers - a tribute to those who volunteer their time to wash the
	www.mindspring.com /~lioness/vietnamlinks.htm (675 words)

	Court Date Set for Vietnam Vet POW/MIA Activist
		Before Kiley was arrested, he, along with Vietnam Veteran/POW activist Ted Sampley and former Vietnam POW Mike Benge, had spent the most part of that day, June 21, in front of the White House helping former South Vietnamese soldiers and political prisoners protest Khai's visit with President George Bush.
		Vietnam tightly restricts freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of association.
		Communist Vietnam with it's long history of deceit and broken agreements is currently increasing efforts to monitor and control citizen's access and use of the Internet.
	www.fva.org /2005/06Jun/story04.htm (1138 words)

	Decorated Vietnam vet back at war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the flight deck of aircraft 63-7865 is a plaque telling the story of one of the hardest working aircraft in the Air Force inventory.
		The war-torn C-130 could only reach 1,000 feet due to its damage and had to make an emergency landing at Plieku Air Base, Vietnam, where it was determined that the combat aircraft would need two new wings and four engines replaced.
		The aircraft's history is not limited to the Vietnam era either.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?id=123025098 (647 words)

	Mackubin T. Owens on Vietnam, Kerry & Atrocities on National Review Online
		Some of Kerry's defenders have laid this charge at the feet of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but the fact is that they were responding to what they perceived as an affront to their honor.
		The first attempt to defend Kerry on the substance of the charge that he had dishonored all of those who fought in Vietnam with his 1971 Senate testimony was a series of arguments claiming that he really didn't mean to include everyone in Vietnam when he made his claim of widespread atrocities.
		American military sociologist Charles Moskos has suggested that atrocity stories out of Vietnam were the functional equivalent of heroic war stories from World War II: They provided a meaning to participation in Vietnam that resonated with those who opposed the war and were now judging the returning soldiers.
	www.nationalreview.com /owens/owens200409200858.asp (2682 words)

	Vietnam Veteran's Terminology and Slang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Being the former imperial capital of a united Vietnam, the center of Vietnamese cultural and religious life, and the capital of Thua Thien Province, Hue became an important symbol in the struggle for dominance of Indochina.
		The Vietnam War became a helicopter war for American forces, and a common way for an infantryman to go into action was by "Slick." "Slick" was the term used to refer to an assault helicopter used to place troops into combat during airmobile operations.
		She served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1966 to 1972 and was in Vietnam from 1968-69.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /glossary.htm (12166 words)

	Art:21 . Maya Lin's "Vietnam Veterans Memorial" \| PBS
		Lin is perhaps most well known for her first public commission, the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Conceived of when she was still an undergraduate at Yale University, the memorial is remarkable in that it proposes neither winners nor losers, but only the names of the dead inscribed in a polished, fl granite.
		Attentive to the individual life of every man and woman who died in the war, the memorial is also responsive to the individual experience of the visitor.
		There is no wrong way to approach the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial" as it makes no grand statements about politics or American ideals.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/lin/card1.html (565 words)

	Vietnam vet's snub angers Kovco's family \| NEWS.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Former president of the NSW Vietnam Veteran's Association Barry Billing criticised the decision yesterday, saying Pte Kovco did not deserve to be included.
		As a Vietnam Veteran I can assure you that Mr Billings is not speaking for me and I would like to remind him that there were several incidents in Vietnam that compare to Pte Kovco's death and the deceased in each case is included on the wall at the AWM.
		Well in Vietnam a couple of sparkies were Killed in a fire when the power station burnt down, others died in truck accidents &&& It is a dangerous precident grading the way a death is commemorated.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,10117,20745948-421,00.html?from=public_rss (1082 words)

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