BRAVO! Co-producer and Co-director Betty Rodgers Muses on BRAVO!’s Supporters
Most people don’t stay for the credits at the end of a film, but almost without exception, our audiences have watched the entire run of credits as if riveted to their seats. I think this is partly...
View ArticleBOOCOO DINKY DOW co-author Julie Titone Muses on Vietnam, Art and BRAVO!
Author Julie Titone, who with her former husband the late Grady Myers, penned the Vietnam War memoir, BOOCOO DINKY DOW, MY SHORT, CRAZY VIETNAM WAR. Julie has authored a blog about the film BRAVO!...
View ArticleBRAVO! To Screen in Southern Arizona
The Paramount Theater, in Casa Grande, AZ, will be screening BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR in a benefit for the Pinal County Veterans Memorial Foundation. Casa Grande, AZ is BRAVO! co-producer and...
View ArticleGuest Blogger Ruth Salter On the Power of Story and Memory
I recently received my copy of Bravo! in the mail and sat down to watch it again. The first time I experienced it at a screening at Boise State University, I was nearly overwhelmed by the stark power...
View ArticleOn Michael E. O’Hara’s “Lest We Forget”
We have just finished reading “Lest We Forget,” a history of Veterans Affairs in Brown County, Indiana, meticulously researched and written by Bravo’s own Michael E. O’Hara. It is awe-inspiring to...
View ArticleOn Grady C. Myers, Julie Titone and “Boocoo Dinky Dow”
For years I shied away from movies and books about Vietnam. I suppose it’s because I felt that none of them told the real story as I had known it. I saw Platoon and Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket...
View ArticleLloyd and I…In Memory of Lloyd Scudder
BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara muses on the passing of BRAVO! Marine, Lloyd “Short Round” Scudder. Both Lloyd and Michael are featured in the documentary film, BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR....
View ArticleNews On Lloyd Scudder Services
News from Lloyd Scudder’s son, Jason, via BRAVO! Marine Ron Rees on the services for BRAVO! Marine, Lloyd Scudder who passed away on 8-19-2013. There will be a viewing starting today, Aug 22nd at 1300...
View ArticleOn Nicholas Warr, Phase Line Green and Hue City
Phase Line Green The Battle for Hue, 1968 by Nicholas Warr A Review by Ken Rodgers The Siege of Khe Sanh had already been going on for over a week by the time the Tet Offensive began. Some historians...
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Dear Sergeant Culliver
BRAVO! supporter and enthusiast Brian Carn from Providence, Rhode Island, has spent years remembering something one of his non-commissioned officers did that probably saved Brian’s life back in 1975....
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Marines Cordileone and Moffat Finally Honored
Over forty-six years after the fight, Marines Joe Cordileone and Robert Moffat of Mike Company, Third Battalion, Third Marine Regiment are finally being recognized for their actions in combat at Hill...
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On David Aldrich, The Wall and Khe Sanh
David Aldrich Panel 47E, Row 007 of The Wall. The Wall, Panel 47E, Row 007 I’ve been having an ongoing e-mail conversation over the last several years with a Marine named Dave Evans who was in Marine...
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On Idaho Public Televison, Steve Wiese, BRAVO! Screenings and a DVD Sale
On October 16, 2013, BRAVO! Marine Steve Wiese, Betty and I were interviewed by Marcia Franklin of Idaho Public TV for her show, Dialogue, which will be aired on Idaho Public Television on November 8,...
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Screening Report
On October 30, 2013 BRAVO! was screened in two locations to nearly 700 viewers. Mid afternoon, the film was shown at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, to 550 active...
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On Semper Fi and Mo & Sluggo’s
Happy 238th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps Today, on our way to tomorrow’s screening at Western Nevada College, we celebrated at Mo and Sluggo’s in Carson City, Nevada, which included a lot...
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On Carson City, Kentfield and the Future of BRAVO!
Here we are nearing the end of 2013 and it has been a fabulous year to be involved with filmmaking and with the folks who have been viewers and participants with BRAVO! Last month we screened the film...
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Kudos to BRAVO! Supporter Mike Shipman for Creating BRAVO!’s Cover Art
BRAVO!’s Cover Art Ever wonder about the person and story behind the art? We have been so pleased with the reaction to BRAVO!’s graphic design that we’d like to tell you more about its genesis. Early...
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Our Brothers’ Keeper
Early in each year, my mind turns to events that happened forty-six years back at the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Vietnam. During the seventy-seven day siege that began on January 21, 1968, certain events...
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On January 21, 1968
Yesterday I awoke early, when the dark still hung from the eaves and leered into my dreams like spirits of long-lost warriors. It was January 21, 2014. Most January 21sts are like that for me…an early...
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On Candles, Khe Sanh and Hand-dipped Candies
This is a time of the year that I call the “season of the siege.” Memories of Khe Sanh in 1967-1968 always flood my mind, but in the winter and early spring of every year the memories infest me with...
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