Deadspin (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
In a further sign that neither candidate is going to give an inch of ground when it comes to doling out sporting bona fides in swing states, John McCain stepped up his wooing of Pittsburgh voters by...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Forty years passed between Ed Mihalacki's arrival in Vietnam as a young soldier and his return last spring. This time he went in peace, in the company of a humanitarian organization working to ease the lives of the residents of the seaport city of Danang. An Army veteran who enlisted at 17 during the height of the war, Mihalacki served in Vietnam from 1968-69. Now a technology education...
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is an animal. In order to conquer the animal, I have to learn to think like an animal. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's pelt and crawl around for a few days. /Need to bust that out of the old video cabinet.//FREEZE GOPHER!
Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hello to anyone and everyone who may be reading this You can probably tell we are now in Vietnam and so far I think I have to say this is my favourite place of the trip only been here a week though.Anyway we left Cambodia after 4 days of doing nothing on the beach other than getting sunburnt again for me I'm being such an idiot on this trip and eating lots of BBQ sea food. We chickened o
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Minor nit pick but McCain was tortured by the North Vietnamese, not the Viet Cong.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Vietnam thru the emotional moments of a tour guide
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam We have come full circle; we are back in Saigon. We spent the last few days visiting a couple of sites related to the Vietnam War. Yesterday, we visited the War Remnants museum, a sad look at war atrocities. Again, it was odd seeing this perspective on history. The photographs of agent orange effects...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
There is now a controversy over whether McCain gave up the Steelers d-line or the Green Bay Packers o-line to the Viet-Cong. Seems McCain mentioned the Packers o-line in Faith of My Fathers and...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Wiessemans, now in their mid-80, have had an adventurous life that included participation in a mass evacuation of Vietnamese people in April 1975 from Saigon, South Vietnam, when the Viet Cong were ready to take over the Vietnamese republic and make it into a communist state. They have traveled widely, including two trips to Antarctica.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Thank you Vietnam for a wonderful 4 daysstarted off late today real late. skipped lunch and slept in instead to save some yusoff ishaks i mean in this case save some ho chi minhs. well i sorta lied to myself tht i needed more sleep since a 2 hr long blackout last nite interrupted my rest.i was feeling good today energized so i decided to do sth different. to be vietnamnese. with the confidence...
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... different account. The core of the dispute is the details surrounding the killing of a suspected Viet Cong guerilla by Kerry. The heroic version of events offered by Kerry was presented in his 2004 campaign book Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. This version described a guerrilla “standing on both feet with a loaded rocket launcher, about to fire” before Kerry shot...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Today, Independence Day, seems like a perfectly appropriate time to praise two war heroes: Lt. Commander John McCain, shot down in 1967 over North Korea by an enemy missile; and Army Captain (now General) Wesley Clark, shot four times three years later by a Viet Cong soldier. You would think these two war heroes would have [...]
Isak (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
... endorse Reagan or Dole. What's hilarious is that the campaigns must've missed the criticism of the Vietnam war in "Born in the USA," so subtle in lyrics like: "Got in a little hometown jam/So they put a rifle in my hand/Sent me off to a foreign land/To go and kill the yellow man" and "I had a brother at Khe Sahn/Fighting off the Viet Cong/They're still there, he's all gone."...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Following the scattershot political satire of "1968 Tunnel Rats" reps another departure for never-say-die multihyphenate Uwe Boll, as it's not based on a vidgame and isn't a fantasy or horror piece -- though it will be horrifying enough for claustrophobes. Instead, the straight-up actioner follows a U.S. special-combat unit trapped underground in labyrinthine, booby-trapped tunnels the Viet...
Acephalous (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... argues : We might take this further, a note the many parallels between the 'Loonies' and the Viet-Cong. Heinlein may have been a pro-war signatory on the famous Galaxy double-page Vietnam advertisement, but his sympathetically portrayed, anti-American Loonies, who are essentially farmers, and who live in elaborate tunnel-systems that prove impossible for invading troops to...
