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January 21, 2022
In Their Own Words Fifty-four years ago today, the Siege of Khe Sanh commenced and for roughly 77 days, the battle roared and the scenes of carnage and death and courage were featured on television...
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February 7, 2022
In Their Own Words Fifty-four years ago, the Siege of Khe Sanh had switched into high gear. Tet churned the South Vietnamese landscape. On February 4th, the NVA assaulted Hill 861-A, breached the...
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February 25, 2022
February 25, 2022 In Their Own Words Fifty-four years ago today, one of the most despairing events of the entire battle known as the Siege of Khe Sanh occurred. Third Platoon, Bravo Company, 26th...
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Semper Fidelis
There’s a photograph of BRAVO! Marine Tom Quigley receiving a purple heart medal while in a hospital bed somewhere in or near the Republic of South Vietnam. The photo was taken on April 1, 1968, two...
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January 21, 1968
As an NVA artillery shell explodes in the ammunition dump, Marines dodge exploding ammo in US Marine Combat Base, Khe Sanh. 1968 Photo by Robert Ellison/Black Star 57 years ago I’d been on R and R in...
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A Terrible February
C-130 burning at Khe Sanh Combat Base. Photo courtesy of David Douglas Duncan By Ken Rodgers I suspect that everyone who sees combat has terrible times, terrible days, or years. For me, at the Siege...
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A Ghostly Memory
Stark image from the Ghost Patrol. Photo courtesy of Robert Ellison/Blackstar By Ken Rodgers February 25, 1968, now known as the Ghost Patrol, is like a festered boil on the back where you can’t...
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March 1968
At The Wall That Heals, March 8, 2019, Casa Grande, Arizona. Photo courtesy of Ken Rodgers By Ken Rodgers After fifty-seven years, the month of March 1968 seems like a long, drawn-out nightmare....
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Payback
What’s Left at the End, is the title of this image taken after the Payback Patrol during the Siege of Khe Sanh. Photo courtesy of Mac McNeely. Yesterday was National Vietnam War Veterans Day and this...
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The Head of My Father
This image of a CH-46 is in the public domain at Wikimedia Commons. This is the type of helicopter in which Ken Rodgers departed from Khe Sanh just before Easter of 1968. As I sat on a cot in a bunker...
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