by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | General
by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | Books, General, Mary Reynolds Powell
By Mary Reynolds Powell Author: A World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam In May, 1971, I was stationed at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam. In July 2018, John Schaninger, a patient, found me after securing hospital records for a VA claim. Our...
by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | Books, Nancy Peacock
By Nancy Peacock He never fired a weapon. But journalist Kevin Sites is haunted by what it feels like to kill someone in combat. And it is why he felt compelled to write The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or...
by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | General, Jacob Arnett
By Jacob Arnett One year ago, I wrote an article for the DD214 Chronicle entitled “Christmas, Afghanistan,” in which I described the perilous situation Afghan translators have faced since the Taliban’s takeover of the country in August 2021. Since then, American...
by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | Louis Pumphrey, Stories
By JC Sullivan In May 1886, after the Civil War was over and the US was in the period of reconstruction, the Ohio Legislature created the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission. The state legislature felt a need to repay the debt owed to Ohio’s Civil War...
by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | General
By Peace Action Cleveland | posted in: Travels With A Peace Flag August 11–For the first time since the last NFL season ended, I was downtown yesterday evening greeting folks headed to Cleveland Browns Stadium, formerly the politically incorrect FirstEnergy Stadium,...
by DL Meckes | Nov 17, 2024 | Featured, Mary Reynolds Powell
In 1971, in the life-or-death confines of an intensive care unit of the Army’s 24th Evacuation hospital in Vietnam, a mortally wounded soldier asked nurse Stephanie Genthon for a glass of orange juice. When she told him he couldn’t have anything to drink because of...
