Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in Vietnam
Series produced by Ampers
Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in Vietnam
Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in Vietnam
20 Pieces
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February 2, 1962: Air Force pilot Robert D. Larson brought his C-123 low, just over the treetops, as he triggered the sprayers. He was part of Oper...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 01:30
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1965: Jim Northrup had been a Marine four years before he shipped to Vietnam. Now, for the first time in his life, he was trying to kill men. And t...
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- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
September 1965: Barry Bondhus got something in the mail. He was turning twenty in a few days. But it wasn’t a gift. And it wasn’t wanted. It was hi...
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- Length: 01:30
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November 6, 1965: Richard Bolstad flew a Sandy as part of a search and rescue team. Yesterday, a pilot had gone down over North Vietnam. But instea...
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- Length: 01:30
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November 19, 1966: Thomas Serrano was racing through the jungle into the heat of battle. But that was his job as a medic. He set to work on his wou...
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- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
October 17, 1967: Stanley Donald Gilbert and his unit were on a search and destroy mission, heading into the jungle to take out a Viet Cong bunker ...
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- Length: 01:30
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January 1968: Richard “Dickie” Sharp didn’t pick the start date to his tour in Vietnam. The Army did. But it couldn’t have been worse because it ca...
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- Length: 01:30
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April 19, 1968: Vietnam wasn’t Herb Hayashida’s first war. That had been World War II, when his Japanese-American family was incarcerated in an int...
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- Length: 01:30
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May 2, 1968: Dean Vasquez and his unit, the 2nd Battalion 4th Marines, aka, the Magnificent Bastards, were in their third day of battle. The odds d...
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- Length: 01:30
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July 4, 1968: Ronald Myron Cloud was a skytrooper with the 1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile). They rode helicopters into battle, jumping into LZs o...
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- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
August 24, 1968: After four years of widowhood, Albertha Hill was tying the knot today. But then the notification came. Her son, her only child, a ...
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- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
November 13, 1968: Laszlo Rabel had to flee his native Hungary after standing up to the Soviet oppressors. Enlisting in the American army in 1965, ...
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- Length: 01:30
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Late 1968: Army nurse Diane Carlson was told never to remember her patients’ names. It was too hard when they died. But Eddie Lee Evenson was a kid...
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1969: Thomas Quinn, St. Louis Park, worked with guys named Butch, Ming and Satan—the German shepherds who were the real stars of the 45th Scout Dog...
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- Length: 01:30
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September 19, 1970: Ken Klose had some downtime. So he decided to write to his cousin in Farmington, Minnesota, about life with the 101st Airborne ...
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- Length: 01:30
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Sometime: 1970-71. Somewhere: Behind enemy lines. Today’s mission was supposed to be easy-ish. Change a magnetic tape that was recording a wiretap....
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- Length: 01:30
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February 27, 1973: When David R. Wheat stepped off the plane in Duluth a band struck up “America the Beautiful.” He was home after seven years in a...
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- Length: 01:30
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May 2, 1975: Saigon had fallen to the North Vietnamese. The war was over. And Suzie Warren was at a Red Cross center, holding a six-year-old boy. H...
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- Length: 01:30
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1984: The Vietnam Wall and the Three Soldiers statue in the nation’s capital didn’t tell the whole story. Diane Carlson Evans, an army nurse in Vie...
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- Length: 01:30
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2016: For the past two years, Herb Reckinger, Jr, had worked with a veteran and a journalism professor to locate a photo for every Minnesotan lost ...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
