BRAVO!: An Appreciation
BRAVO! supporter Jean Hegland muses about the film, history and the Vietnam War Although I grew up with the Viet Nam war, it was never very real to me. I was born in 1956, and in the 1960s when my...
View ArticleStringing Concertina
It’s the time of the year when veterans of the Siege of Khe Sanh seriously reflect on events that led up to and occurred during the months of January, February, March and April 1968. That’s forty-five...
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Such a Fragile Thing
It is such a fragile thing. This thing called “Making Art.” We chunk the phrase around like throwing a shovel into the back of the truck, and yet, when you stop to think about it, Making Art is … yes…...
View ArticleMarch and April Screenings of BRAVO! in Reno, Fresno, Clovis and Moscow, ID
We have terrific news to announce about upcoming screenings of BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR in March and April, 2013. If you want to see BRAVO!, meet the filmmakers, meet other veterans and...
View ArticleUpcoming Screenings of BRAVO!
Tomorrow evening, March 12, BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR will be screened on the campus of the University of Nevada-Reno in the Wells Fargo Auditorium in the Library and Knowledge Center. Sponsors...
View ArticleReno Screening of BRAVO!
Last night at the University of Nevada-Reno, we screened BRAVO! in the Wells Fargo Auditorium to a crowd of over one-hundred with a wide variety of viewing ages from Korean War veterans down through...
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On Agent Orange, Music, Khe Sanh and Vietnam
My name is Jim Purtell and I am a combat Vietnam veteran and songwriter. On January 21, 1968, when the battle of Khe Sanh began for you guys, I was safe at home in Oshkosh, Wisconsin watching Vietnam...
View ArticleFirst Day of Spring Screenings
This afternoon, BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR will screen in the auditorium at the regional facility for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Fresno, California, at 4:30 PM (doors will open at...
View ArticleOn the Fresno and Clovis Screenings of BRAVO!
Last Wednesday and Thursday BRAVO! was screened to several hundred enthusiastic and earnest viewers in Fresno and Clovis, California. On Wednesday the film was shown at the Fresno Veterans Affairs...
View ArticleBRAVO! Marine Ron Rees Recalls March 22, 1968
I awoke eleven days back thinking about 45 years ago at Khe Sanh. March 22nd 1968. I had arrived at the KSCB March 1st, 1968, with the only other person I would know from the world. His name was Ron...
View ArticleNews About Screenings in Moscow, Idaho and Sonora, California
MOSCOW, Idaho Here’s the info on the screening of BRAVO!, COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR in Moscow, Idaho, on April 19, 2013 at 6:30 PM. Screening is at The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre at 508 South...
View ArticleWhy I Fight Part 2
Last September I wrote a blog for this site titled “Why I Fight” about, in part, an Ethiopian refugee whom Betty and I met in Washington, DC. That gentleman was in the US because he made a documentary...
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News From the Moscow Screening and What’s Up Next
The screening of BRAVO! to nearly two hundred attendees last week in Moscow, Idaho, co-sponsored by the University of Idaho’s Operation Education and the Department of English, was an amazing...
View ArticleOn Hill 55, Sonora and Soledad
This is the season of May Day when the flowers bud and a sense of new life comes to mind, the scent of lavender, the new green on aspen trees, the longer days announced by the five-thirty-AM song of...
View ArticleOn Armed Forces Day, 2013
The pines jutted up all around the campus. The weather was warm, shorts and short sleeves in order. The jays called out from the tops of digger pines and the breeze sang little tunes. On the campus of...
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Cobb Hammond on the Second Battle of Fallujah
On this Memorial Day, millions of Americans will honor the American service members who gave the final sacrifice in battle. Historically, we have remembered those who died in the great wars of the last...
View ArticleThey Remember, by Connie Gibbons
They remember… …the reality of war. Danger. Smells. Artillery bombardment, relentlessly screaming for days on end. Brothers and sisters falling; the ground awash in blood red puddles and rivulets. Fog...
View ArticleOn Soledad
A lot of friends and followers of BRAVO! have been waiting for a blog about our trip to Soledad, CA, to screen the film to the incarcerated veterans. We did indeed show the film at the penitentiary in...
View ArticleOn Super Gaggles, CH-46s and Re-Supplying Khe Sanh
Marine Michael Phillips flew re-supply choppers into Khe Sanh and the surrounding hills during the siege. Here he tells us what it was like. My name is Michael Phillips, and I was a Marine Corps pilot...
View ArticleNews on the Premiere of a Short Film about US Troops in Afghanistan
Southern California friends and supporters of BRAVO!, on July 7, 2013 a special premiere of the short film MIRAGE AT ZABUL PROVINCE will be held in Los Angeles, CA, and you are invited. MIRAGE AT ZABUL...
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