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Dr. Mark Moyar

Episode 2453 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature an interview with Dr. Mark Moyar where he presents shocking revelations concerning the Vietnam War and the brave veterans who served there.

Dr. Moyar was featured in two previous episodes of this podcast, 2431 and 2444. He was discussing his two book about the Vietnam War.

The first in the series was titled: Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. It shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States by utilizing an analysis of international perceptions and power. Sadly it contends that President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country.

Dr. Moyar’s second book in the series, Triumph Regained, The Vietnam War, 1965-1968, goes counter to accepted ideas about the War. He rejects the standard depiction of U.S. military intervention as a hopeless folly; it shows America’s war to have been a strategic necessity that could have ended victoriously had President Lyndon Johnson heeded the advice of his generals. To come to these conclusions in his book, Moyar utilized a treasure trove of new sources, many of them from the North Vietnamese side.

Mark Moyar has an impressive resume. He holds the William P. Harris Chair in Military History at Hillsdale College. His past academic appointments include the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University and fellowships at the Joint Special Operations University and Texas A&M University. During the Trump administration, he served in the U.S. Agency for International Development as the director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation.

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Col. Paris Davis, who retired from the U.S. Army Special Forces, photographed this month in Alexandria, Va. While fighting in the Vietnam War in 1965, Mr. Davis performed a stunning series of heroic acts during an 18-hour battle, including dragging three wounded men to safety after he had been shot five times.Credit…Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

Episode 2452 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about Vietnam Vet Retired Army Col. Paris Davis and why he had to wait 56 years to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in the Vietnam War. The featured story appeared in The Dayton Daily News and was titled: Former Dayton man advocated for Medal of Honor recipient. It was submitted Thomas Gnau. He is a reporter for the Dayton Daily News who covers manufacturing, military affairs and business. He grew up a U.S. Navy dependent, living in two countries and five states before his 16th birthday. He graduated from Chaminade-Julienne High School and Wright State University. A Kettering resident, he is married to a teacher; he and his wife have a son and two daughters.

In his story he describes a situation that shows how persistence and determination can produce wonderful results. In 1965, Paris Davis was a captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces A Team leader stationed at Bon Son, South Vietnam. During an intense battle taking place at his camp, according to the Army Times, Davis repeatedly ran into an open rice paddy to rescue each member of his team, using his pinkie finger to fire his rifle after his hand was shattered by an enemy grenade. His entire team survived.

According to former Daytonian (and Green Beret) Ron Deis, 79, Davis refused the leave the battlefield until he had recovered all of his Special Forces team who were wounded on the battlefield. There were four of them, plus him.

Deis, 79, helped advance a recommendation for the award after an earlier two recommendations for Davis were, as Deis put it in an interview, “mysteriously lost.”

Davis, then an Army captain, was recommended for the Medal of Honor by his commanding officer for distinguishing himself on a June 1965 morning during a pre-dawn raid on a North Vietnamese army camp in Bong Son, the Associated Press reported.

Deis said he suspected that the first two nominations were lost or buried in Pentagon bureaucracy due to racism.

Listen to episode 2452 and discover more about Vietnam Vet Retired Army Col. Paris Davis and why he had to wait 56 years to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in the Vietnam War.

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Jan C. Scruggs, known as “Founder of the [Vietnam] Wall,” will serve as keynote speaker at Kent County Chapter 850 Vietnam Veterans of America’s annual Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony. [Submitted photo/Kent County Chapter 850 Vietnam Veterans of America]

Episode 2451 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about Jan C. Scruggs, known as “Founder of the Vietnam Wall,” who will be making a keynote speech in Delaware. The featured story comes from The Delaware State News and is titled: ‘Founder of the Wall’ Jan C. Scruggs to keynote Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony.

Jan C. Scruggs is another tremendous representative of the Vietnam Veteran Generation, one as great as any that ever heeded the call of duty from its country. He is known as “Founder of the [Vietnam] Wall,” and will serve as keynote speaker at Kent County Chapter 850 Vietnam Veterans of America’s annual Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 25 at the Kent County Veterans Memorial Park at Dover, Delaware.

Scruggs served in Vietnam as a combat infantryman in the U.S. Army. In 1969 he was wounded by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade attack. When he returned home in March 1970, his wartime experiences had made him disillusioned with the way his fellow veterans were disrespected and even blamed for the war. Mr. Scruggs became an expert on PTSD and testified before Congress.

Years after the War, Scruggs felt a strong motivation to show his deep respect and appreciation for his fellow Vietnam Veterans. He began his crusade by establishing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund whose mission was to build a national memorial in Washington, D.C. to honor the more than the 58,000 who paid the ultimate price in a controversial war and those who survived the war.

That mission came to fruition on Veterans Day 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was formally dedicated. It attracts five million visitors annually.

All who can are encouraged to attend the event and hear Jan Scruggs keynote address.

For more information about the event, contact Paul Davis at 302-697-8384 or pauldavis5233@comcast.net.

Listen to episode 2451 and discover more about Jan C. Scruggs, known as “Founder of the Vietnam Wall,” who will be making a keynote speech in Delaware.

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Pulitzer winning journalist Seymour Hersh

Episode 2450 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story more about how the Norwegian Navy participated in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The featured story comes from the Counter Currents website and was titled: Covert Operations In Vietnam: The Incomplete History of U.S.-Norway Collaboration. It was submitted by the Countercurrents Collective.

The featured story describes the relationship between the C.I.A. and the Norwegian Navy. It seems Pulitzer winning journalist Seymour Hersh has discovered that our president Okayed the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines    that lie in the Baltic Sea and did provide Germany with cheap Russian natural gas.

According to Hersh, he found that the C.I.A. enlisted the aid of the Norwegian Navy to get the job done. He also discovered that the Norwegians had a hand in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that occurred back in 1964. That is the event President Lyndon B. Johnson hung his hat on to send 500,000 American military personnel to fight a war in Vietnam.

Hersh claims decades before allegedly helping it bomb European gas lines, the Norwegian military aided the CIA’s undeclared war in Vietnam

Six decades before Norway helped the CIA destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it gave the agency heavily-armed boats that it used to target North Vietnam. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote Norway’s involvement in this secret war was deeper than previously reported.

In explaining why the U.S. chose Norway as its partner in destroying the Russia-to-Germany gas lines, Hersh said on Wednesday that the “Norwegian Navy has a long and murky history of cooperation with American intelligence.”

One may wonder why the C.I.A. chose Norway as a partner for clandestine operations. It seems Norway has become proficient in building large armed boats to defend its 1,400 mile coastline. They were motivated to do that after the treatment they received by the Nazi’s during World War II.

Listen to episode 2450 and discover more about how the Norwegian Navy participated in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

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Photo By Fonda Bock | The remains Vietnam War Army Pfc. Thomas F. Green will be interred Feb. 23, at Nuevo Memory Gardens in his hometown of Ramona, California.

Episode 2449 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature two stories about the discovery, identification and return of the remains of a Vietnam Veteran who was lost in 1971. One of the stories comes from the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service and was titled: Remains of Soldier killed during the Vietnam War to be buried in Ramona, California. It was submitted by Fonda Bock, a writer for the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. The other story was a press release from The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and was titled:  Soldier Accounted For From Vietnam War (Green, T.)

In 1971, 19 year old Thomas F. Green of Ramona, California was serving his country in the U.S. Army as a CH-47 Chinook Helicopter door gunner in Vietnam. On Oct. 26, 1971 his aircraft went down into the sea during bad weather. He died in the crash but his remains were not recovered and identified until Aug. 23, 2022 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

There was an unsuccessful recovery attempt made in 1974 when divers from the Joint Casualty Resolution Center dove on what was believed to be the crash site. A number of investigation and recovery efforts took place between 1994 and 2021 with a June 2021 recovery mission finding possible human remains and material evidence. Thomas F. Green remains will be interred Feb. 23, at Nuevo Memory Gardens

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Green’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000BThWEAW.

“For additional information about Pfc. Green, go to: https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3139077/soldier-accounted-for-from-vietnam-war-green-t/

To learn more about the Department of Defense’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at http://www.dpaa.mil,
www.facebook.com/dodpaa, or call (703) 699-1420/1169.

Listen to episode 2449 and discover more about the discovery, identification and return of the remains of a Vietnam Veteran who was lost in 1971.

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Anders Hardware, North Port, Alabama

Vietnam Vet Roger Anders speaking with his son Rich at Anders Harderware.

Episode 2448 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about Vietnam Roger Anders and his 114 year old hardware store in Northport, Alabama. The featured story appeared on WVUA-TV and was titled: Spirit of Alabama: Celebrating 114 years at Anders Hardware. It was submitted by Mike Royer.

For your information, Northport is located on the north shore of the Black Warrior River. Directly on the south side of the river from Northport lies Tuscaloosa, the home of the University of Alabama where they have been known to play college football.

Also FYI, WVUA 23 is a commercial television station operated by the University of Alabama in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. Their broadcasts can be seen from Mississippi to Georgia across the Birmingham television market on Cable, Direct TV, Dish Net, U-Verse, and Over-the-Air. The station covers West Alabama and is a competitive professional commercial television station in the nation’s top 40 market where students and professionals work together to achieve the highest standards in electronic communication and community service.

The purpose of this podcast episode is to highlight the WVUA story about a Vietnam Veteran who hails from Northport. Roger Anders served in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. When he came home he was older, stronger, wiser and better able to deal with adversity than his non-Vietnam Veteran contemporaries.

He proved that by continuing the legacy of continuous family ownership of Anders Hardware in the same building on Main Street in Northport that is going on 114 years of serving the community.

Roger’s son Rich is now running the store. Rich said he was fortunate to train under his father, who taught him a whole lot more than the hardware business. He added “My dad is just amazingly committed. He has a work ethic like no other. He taught me that consistency and hard work. I’ll still call my Dad, ‘you know,’ this month is down a little…’ ‘Don’t worry about it, you know in the past this is what happened.’ He still provides a lot of encouragement.”

More than likely much of that wisdom Roger offers his son was gleaned from his time in Vietnam.

Listen to episode 2448 and discover more about Vietnam Roger Anders and his 114 year old hardware store in Northport, Alabama.

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Vietnam War veterans, from left: Sen. David Clemens, R-West Fargo; Rep. Dennis Johnson, R-Devils Lake, and Rep. Lawrence Klemen, R-Bismarck.
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Episode 2447 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about the three North Dakota Vietnam Veterans who are making a difference in the North Dakota Legislature. The featured story comes from News North Dakota and is titled: Vietnam War veterans share how their experience translates to work in North Dakota Legislature. It was submitted by Isabelle Ballalatak, a reporting intern with the North Dakota Newspaper Association.

In her story, Ballalatak interviewed North Dakota Vietnam Veterans Rep. Dennis Johnson, R-Devils Lake,; Rep. Lawrence Klemin, R-Bismarck, and Sen. David Clemens, R-West Fargo, who reflected recently on serving in the war and how it shapes them today.

Dennis Johnson says he served in Vietnam until 1972. “It was a war zone. I watched many refugees live in shacks with roofs made out of the ends of aluminum beer cans attached together,” he said. “Until you see these other parts of the world, you don’t realize how nice we have it in the United States.”

Klemin says he served in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969, with the 101st Airborne Division. He reported that he served in Vietnam for a full year besides three months he spent recovering from a wound he suffered in the field. He said “I have a greater appreciation for life,” as he reflected on his time in Vietnam. “I like things to be orderly like the military does, and I believe in following the rule of law.”

Clemens says he was in Vietnam for 11 months. Originally sent to Vietnam as an infantryman, he was selected during processing to work in a reenlistment office. He said he was drafted in 1969 and discharged in 1971. “The military itself has made me a much more patriotic American. I have no regrets serving, and I’m glad I got the opportunity to.”

All three of these North Dakota Vietnam Veterans have been issued an official Vietnam Veteran News Podcast Salute for their service to their county in Vietnam and after they came home.

Listen to episode 2447 and discover more about the three North Dakota Vietnam Veterans who are making a difference in the North Dakota Legislature.

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A Vietnamese soldier stands guard at a dioxin contaminated area at Bien Hoa airbase, where the U.S. Army stored the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, in Bien Hoa city, outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Wednesday. | REUTERS

Episode 2446 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about the US agreeing to help Vietnam cleanup an old Vietnam War Agent Orange dump at Bien Hoa. The featured story comes from The New Delhi Times and was titled: US Pays to Clean Up Agent Orange on Vietnam War Anniversary. It was submitted by the NDT Bureau.

According to the New Delhi Times: The United States earlier this month announced a contract worth up to $29 million to clean up dioxin contamination at the Bien Hoa Air Base in southern Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City, a consequence of U.S. use of the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

A. Grubbs, the Hanoi-based Vietnam mission director for the U.S. Agency for International Development reportedly said this about the development: “This announcement represents the United States’ commitment to our partnership with Vietnam. This contract will complete critical preparatory work, paving the way for the treatment phase of the project.”

USAID said it finished a similar project in 2018 to clean up Agent Orange and other chemicals that it sprayed around Da Nang in central Vietnam to defoliate the jungle used by communist forces to hide during the war. It said compared to Da Nang, Bien Hoa would require dealing with four times as much soil that has been contaminated with the chemicals, still linked to birth defects.

A Vietnamese corporation, VINA E&C Investment and Construction JSC, has been awarded the contract to prep the soil and get it ready for treatment over a period of four years. Vu Van Liem, general director of VINA E&C Investment and Construction JSC said, “We look forward to applying our specialized expertise to meet the project’s high safety and health requirements and technical specifications, and contribute to the overall success of the project.”

Listen to episode 2446 and discover more about the US agreeing to help Vietnam cleanup an old Vietnam War Agent Orange dump at Bien Hoa.

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I Corp, Vietnam

Episode 2315 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature another story by Ron Mosbaugh, the pride of Joplin, Missouri and all Jasper County.

In this episode, Ron, who has been a frequent contributor to this Podcast will be sharing an original story he composed titled: “Vietnam – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
He writes with a twofold purpose. Number one was to treat his challenging case of PTSD. Number two is to inform all about the real story of service in Vietnam as a field corpsman with the Marine infantry.

As a reminder, Ron served a 31-year career in the U.S. Navy as a corpsman. His brother Don served a carbon copy of Ron’s career in the Navy. That means they served in the medical field. During those 31 years of service in the Navy, Ron spent thirteen months on the “Green Side” as a field corpsman in Vietnam with Hotel Company, Second Battalion, First Marines in the dangerous I Corps region of northern South Vietnam.

Ron stated that he witnessed things a 19 years old lad should never see. He went out on hundreds of patrols with the Marines and often was confronted with gruesome scenes of death and destruction. He often would be holding the hand of a wounded Marine as they died from their wounds.

All those horrific things he witnessed in combat resulted in a serious case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for Ron. When he sought help for his debilitating condition, one of first recommendations he received to combat his PTSD was to write about his memories of those terrible times.

In his story shared in this episode, Ron describes his personal thoughts about the trials and tribulations encountered by Vietnam Veterans in that War.

Listen to episode 2315 and discover more about Vietnam Veteran Ron Mosbaugh’s story titled: “Vietnam – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

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Field Corpsman Ron Mosbaugh in Vietnam

Episode 2307b of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature another story by Ron Mosbaugh, the pride of Joplin, Missouri and all Jasper County.

In this episode, Ron, who has been a frequent contributor to this Podcast will be sharing an original story he composed titled: “Why Not Me Lord.”

He writes with a twofold purpose. Number one was to treat his challenging case of PTSD. Number two is to inform all about the real story of service in Vietnam as a field corpsman with the Marine infantry.

As a reminder, Ron served a 31-year career in the U.S. Navy as a corpsman. His brother Don served a carbon copy of Ron’s career in the Navy. That means they served in the medical field. During those 31 years of service in the Navy, Ron spent thirteen months on the “Green Side” as a field corpsman in Vietnam with Hotel Company, Second Battalion, First Marines in the dangerous I Corps region of northern South Vietnam.

Ron stated that he witnessed things a 19 years old lad should never see. He went out on hundreds of patrols with the Marines and often was confronted with gruesome scenes of death and destruction. He often would be holding the hand of a wounded Marine as they died from their wounds.

All those horrific things he witnessed in combat resulted in a serious case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for Ron. When he sought help for his debilitating condition, one of first recommendations he received to combat his PTSD was to write about his memories of those terrible times.

In his story shared in this episode, Ron describes his personal thoughts about the importance spirituality to us all.

Listen to episode 2307b and discover more about Vietnam Veteran Ron Mosbaugh’s story titled: “Why Not Me Lord.”