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Vietnam
Ralph E. Stone
January 27, 2012
January 30th marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Tet Offensive, a defining event in the Vietnam War. I was a U.S. Army Transportation officer stationed in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
General William Westmoreland commanded the U.S. military operations in the Vi...
Amit Kothiyal
November 28, 2011
Welcome to the world of colors and cultural diversity. Vietnam, where the landscapes are bolder and coastlines are more dramatic and the never forgetting history is so compelling. The most approaching destination for a wonderful Vietnam tours, people can experience divine tastes and will find the fa...
Peter Filinovich
November 17, 2011
Vietnam is a beautiful country with green rice fields and rich historical traditions. Vietnam tourist destinations attract many visitors from different parts of the world.
Amit Kothiyal
October 04, 2011
With immense geographic and cultural diversity Vietnam is famous for a heart throbbing holiday experiences. The country is famed for its varied seasons and amazing tropical beauties so is famed for the best travel destination. Explore yourself with the amazing beauty and gigantic culture of Vietnam...
Amit Kothiyal
September 12, 2011
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The fascinating itinerary takes you to the most popular tours in cities of Vietnam and helps you discover major...
Amit Kothiyal
September 01, 2011
Buffalo Tours brings you more reasons to enjoy beach breaks in Vietnam by adding two exclusive beach breaks itineraries in their collection of Vietnam tours.
Explore Vietnam and find out more options to choose from by visiting buffalotours.com. Whether you are going with friends or family, we have ...
Amit Kothiyal
August 22, 2011
Vietnam is one of the most popular tour destinations with immense geographic & cultural diversity. From rock climbing to comfortable stay in luxury hotels & resorts, from a relaxing beach break to exotic river cruising, Vietnam has much more to explore.
If you have already planned a visit to Vie...
Amit Kothiyal
June 10, 2011
An astonishing amalgamation of natural beauty, diverse culture, captivating historical events and adventure activities, Vietnam is a top pick for travel enthusiasts all over the world and if you are an adrenaline junky, adventure activities of Vietnam are sure to increase the rush. Opt for Vietnam a...
Robert Paul Reyes
May 29, 2011
"Communist Vietnam has banned police from wearing black sunglasses, chatting, smoking and putting their hands in their pockets while they are on duty in public places, a media report said."
AFP
I agree with the policy banning black sunglasses, when a cop is wearing mirrored sunglasses it makes...
Amit Kothiyal
May 20, 2011
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Visit Vietnam to get an experience of a lifetime and discover country´s varied climate and landscape range of four seasons from the tear-rou...
Frank A. Hilario
April 29, 2011
HO CHI MINH CITY - The costs of fossil fuels rise for city travelers even as the biofuel crops grow for country toilers; the oil prices shoot up fast while the fuel crops raise their stalks slowly. It is not yet a win-win situation. The race still belongs to the swift and strong. Black oil is beauti...
Amit Kothiyal
April 27, 2011
Enjoy a whole day exploring the culture, cuisine and surroundings of Vietnam with exclusive day trips in Vietnam. Vietnam trips provide tourists a great and convenient way to experience Vietnam like locals and explore the beauty of the place. While visiting Vietnam, you can choose to travel at var...
Sarah Brown
April 17, 2011
Immerse yourself in a passing period in American history that is often misunderstood and underappreciated with author Dick Rose´s Tarnished Brass Curtain: A Novel of Vietnam
Sarah Brown
April 09, 2011
Vietnam Surgeon and Purple Heart Recipient, Dr. James O. Finnegan, Pens Memoir About His Time in Khe Sanh Called "In the Company of Marines"
Amit Kothiyal
March 04, 2011
Revive your adventurous side by planning a Saigon Vietnam tour and explore the fascinating region of Saigon. Inspire yourself with the adventurous possibilities that Saigon has to offer. From the beginning to the end, Saigon city tour is an exciting journey, which has to be experienced to be believe...
Amit Kothiyal
February 11, 2011
Exhausted of spending hard earned vacation time on weddings, family reunions and the preconditioned festive visits to friends? Do you always get the boring "been there, done that" feeling? Well, may be its time to explore your adventurous side and do something different, something challenging and so...
Amit Kothiyal
February 11, 2011
"Luxury tours to Vietnam have become better than ever, thanks to Buffalotours.com"
Explore major cities and other Vietnam highlights including Hanoi, Halong Bay, Sapa, theMekong Delta, Hue and more in a single tour at Buffalotours (http://www.buffalotours.com) .
This tour is designed for you to di...
Amit Kothiyal
January 28, 2011
Know some of the most popular adventure tours in Vietnam and learn how to experience the adventurous Vietnam to the fullest.
Gary Ater
December 20, 2010
WILL AFGHANISTAN BECOME OBAMA´S VIETNAM? This is a question that is being asked much more often today.
Daniel James Wood
November 12, 2010
So every year we have Veterans' Day, a time when we offer our thanks to those brave souls, hold parades for them, and now, in the electronic age, pay tribute to them all over the Internet. Sadly, what still eludes the "Vietnam Alumni" is the recognition they have never been given by the body that sent them to that Hell, a Hell that they faced with valor, and for which they were greeted upon their return as villains.
Gary Ater
June 27, 2010
McChrystal may be gone, but his replacement, General Petraeus, also believes in the same COIN (counterinsurgency) military approach.
Newswire Services
June 10, 2010
ATLANTA, GA -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) welcomed Vietnam Airlines as the newest member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance. With Vietnam's entrance, Delta customers immediately gain the ability to earn and redeem SkyMiles on the airline's flights, as well as access to its airport lounges in Han...
Newswire Services
May 16, 2010
NEWTOWN, Pa. -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) announced the award of a contract by Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) of Vietnam to build the VINASAT-2 satellite. In-orbit delivery is slated for the second quarter of 2012. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Based on the highly reliab...
John Albert Graham
October 18, 2009
Former Foreign Service Officer John Graham suggests how lessons learned from Vietnam could yet lead us to success in Afghanistan.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
August 30, 2009
In August 2007 Senator Barack Obama fresh on the presidential campaign trail made an impassioned promise at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to wage what he dubbed the war that has to be won. The war is the war in Afghanistan. He promised to quickly get out of Iraq, corral America´s allies in a partnership to wipe out the terrorists and their mass destructive weapons, end corruption, hold free elections, and insure a stable government in Afghanistan.
Two years later and a shell out of $230 billion dollars, and more than 700 US dead, not one of these goals have been met.
Darren Chow
July 22, 2009
Historically, economic structure of Vietnam was based on agriculture with wet-rice cultivation its main stay for centuries until it suffered major setbacks during the Vietnam War. In 1975, the new government of Vietnam adopted a planned economic growth that included providing capital, farms and indu...
Crime Blotter
July 02, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former executive of Philadelphia-based Nexus Technologies Inc. pleaded guilty today in connection with his participation in a conspiracy to bribe Vietnamese government officials in exchange for lucrative contracts to supply equipment and technology to Vietnamese government agencie...
Stafford Williamson
December 01, 2008
Malyasia ADDS 91 biodiesel facilities (new permits issued for 10 million tonnes). NO, it isn't a food versus fuel fight, the breastfeeding is nothing to do with biodiesel, but the book about it is needed. Vietnam + Finland shows us how to make biodiesel from fish heads, but don't count on catfish fat it's too valuable (What???). Georgia, Turkey and neighbors trying to keep oil out of Russian hands. Swedish biodiesel firm gets praise for avoiding food vs. fuel, but the real innovation is biodiesel as a isolation solution.
Dorothy Thompson
June 12, 2008
On the coattails of the new hit TV show, Army Wives, comes a blockbuster hit novel from Phyllis Zimbler Miller. MRS. LIEUTENANT is getting rave reviews and gives us our "army wives" fix when relaxing by the poolside or by the beach instead of the TV.
Dave Gibson
May 30, 2008
When someone with the background of Sen. John McCain is ready to sell-out his fellow POW's and turn the United States into a Third World nation...No other explanation could truly suffice.
Newswire Services
March 26, 2008
Because many Vietnam veterans believe that they never got the thanks
that other U.S. military personnel has received in recent the years, a
Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home event is set for Sunday, March 30 at California
High School in Whittier, Southern California 90604, organizers have
announced....
Robert Higgs
October 24, 2007
In the Bush administration’s latest attempt to put a prettier face on its war in Iraq, U.S. officials are making increasing reference to a “Korea model.” In this pipe dream, the situation in Iraq would be stabilized in the same way that the Korean War was resolved. Just as U.S. military bases and te...
Steve Hammons
July 11, 2007
As many people have pointed out, there seem to be important similarities as well as significant differences when comparing the Vietnam War and the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
That said, one of the similarities may turn out to be points in time when American public opinion gradually shifted f...
Andrew Evans
June 13, 2007
There has been much talk about how the war in Iraq is becoming America’s next Vietnam War. Opponents of the war claim that the war is unwinnable, much like Vietnam devolved into. The current Bush administration states that we still need to stay the course and keep on track in Iraq. The track of the ...
Gary Ater
May 21, 2007
A question that was to become inevitable; “Is Iraq another Vietnam for the US?” And another question that is starting to arise at the water cooler and on the talk shows; “After the US leaves, could Iraq go toward capitalism as has Vietnam?”
Let’s take a look and address both to see if Iraq is in ...
Robert Fantina
February 05, 2007
Prior to his infamous invasion of Iraq and continuing on to today, President George W. Bush often proclaimed the need to fight the terrorists ‘there’ so we would not need to fight them ‘here.’ The fact that there were no terrorists ‘there’ threatening U.S. interests seemed to be unimportant.
Yet ...
Robert Fantina
January 18, 2007
Throughout most of the 1960s and ‘70’s, American presidents escalated U.S. military involvement in the tragic, misguided and unnecessary war in Vietnam. The ultimate result of this military, political and economic disaster was the death of over 50,000 Americans and between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 Vi...
Steve Hammons
January 12, 2007
The recent passing of former President Gerald Ford reminds us of the idea that, in sometimes unusual ways, events in life seem to move in circles and patterns.
Ford entered the presidency when U.S. involvement in Vietnam was deemed a lost cause and when the American people and Congress demanded a...
California Political Desk
November 13, 2006
Washington, DC - Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) offered the following statement for the Congressional Record today in opposition to granting Vietnam permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with the United States:
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to granting permanent normal trade rela...
Resa LaRu Kirkland
September 07, 2006
One of my beloved Vietnam Veterans, Michael Galindo, sent me an email the other day with a humorous idea for a t-shirt: If the Vietnam Veteran lost the Vietnam War, how come we don’t speak Vietnamese?
I laughed. It was logical, it was reasonable, and it was undeniable. But it got me to thinking a...
Steve Hammons
November 05, 2005
With the Iraq war continuing, the lists of dead and wounded getting longer and protests about the war growing stronger, it seems like time to revisit that era.
A key event during the Vietnam war period was the Kent State University shootings a little over thirty-five years ago.
For those too ...
Robert Rouse
July 16, 2005
I read about people who are making comparisons between that little incident we were involved with in Southeast Asia and our current snafu in Iraq. While I can understand why they might choose to mention both in the same breath, I have to take exception to their homology. Some will be quick to po...
Newswire Services
July 11, 2005
By 1st Lt. Charles Denike
Dive teams returned home to Oahu this month after a 30-day deployment to Vietnam in support of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC.
The groundbreaking JPAC mission was the first in a set of programmed trips to Vietnam to conduct underwater searches for down...
Rosa Mendoza
May 10, 2005
It all started one day in March, 2005, when I asked my high school students a simple question: how many US soldiers had lost their lives in the war in Iraq? Although I knew the answer, I wanted to find out what they knew or perceived. Some guessed 100, others guessed 300. Most were off by at least 1...
