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On Casa Grande, Arizona and Barry Hart
Last night in Casa Grande, Arizona, we screened BRAVO! at the old Paramount Theatre to an enthusiastic audience approaching one-hundred attendees. Casa Grande is my hometown. As always, the mix of...
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Betty and I are pleased to announce that we will be joining Ken and Sharon Pipes for two screenings of BRAVO! in Southern California. Ken Pipes was the company commander of Bravo Company during the...
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After Action Report on the Vista and Fallbrook, California Screenings
On behalf of Ken and Sharon Pipes, their son Tim, grandson Connor, and Ken and Betty Rodgers, we wish to extend our most heartfelt thanks and gratitude for making the screenings of BRAVO! COMMON MEN,...
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After Action Report on Screenings at San Quentin and the SS Jeremiah O’Brien
The cream-colored walls of San Quentin were shrouded in a cold mist as Betty, Associate Producer Carol Caldwell-Ewart and I arrived at the prison to screen BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR on...
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Lou Kern Muses on Green Ghosts, Hill 950 and the End of the Siege of Khe Sanh
I came down from the mountain a few weeks after the end of the Siege in June of 1968. I’d been up there for 11 straight weeks. Two of us radio operators from my company were stationed up on Hill 950...
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BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara Remembers Quiles Ray Jacobs
Nineteen years ago the ground around Los Angeles shook terribly for just a moment. A Giant of a man had just fallen after a long and courageous struggle for survival. Quiles Ray Jacobs had succumbed to...
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Requiem for Mark Spear
Sometimes even the hardest, the meanest of us get shocks of sad news that force us to react in ways we don’t want to react. Thirty-two days ago, Betty and I were having brunch with BRAVO! Skipper Ken...
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Skipper Ken Pipes’ Reports on Veterans in the San Diego County, CA Jail
I have been asked by Ken and Betty Rodgers to comment upon a special program that has been recently instituted by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department within their county jail system. The...
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On Art and War
We have art in order not to die of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche Betty and I recently returned from a trip to California where we screened BRAVO!. On our way back to Boise we stopped in at the Living...
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All I Ever Did Was Love My Country: What we don’t—and can’t—know about PTSD...
By Liza Long “Oh yes, you asked me about the rocket attack on Danang, and well, honey, just don’t worry about rocket attacks at all—they’re really inaccurate. Of course, we’d take it very personally if...
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Anatomy of a Photograph
One of the seminal images associated with BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR is a photo provided to us by BRAVO! Marine Mike McCauley. When we interviewed nine of the men in San Antonio in July 2010,...
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BRAVO!
Guest blogger Lance Thompson has been a tireless supporter of BRAVO! as well as a member of our loosely formed but essential Advisory Board. The producers of BRAVO! are indebted to him for these...
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BRAVO!’s Michael E. O’Hara Delivers a Stirring Speech; News on Upcoming...
BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara was the guest speaker at the Brown County, Indiana, Memorial Day celebration hosted by Veterans of Foreign War Post 6195. The event was held on the courthouse lawn and...
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Remembering June 7, 1967
As I write this blog, the date is June 7, 2014. Recognition of the date leads me to ponder a June 7 forty-seven years ago. Not long after returning from Vietnam in April, 1968, I was cruising the...
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Notes on the Springfield, Illinois Screenings of BRAVO!
Last week Betty and I flew into Chicago, rented a car and drove down to Springfield, Illinois, the burial place of our 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. We traveled there as the...
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A Beacon for All the Words that Remain Unspoken
By Don Johnson 2.5 ~ 58,000 ~ 6,000,000 ~ 60,000,000 ~ 250 Numbers, the kind I’ve seen a lot of recently, the kind that makes me realize just how fortunate my number really was. I’ve seen Bravo! twice...
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On The Many Faces of Fear and the Quest for Closure
I recently received a telephone call from a gentleman I met last year at the Khe Sanh Veterans reunion in Nashville, TN. He reminded me that he had come to the reunion back in September to see if he...
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A True Friend to BRAVO!
Meet Carol Caldwell-Ewart, BRAVO!’s Associate Producer. You’ve seen the name in the credits, perhaps even met Carol, but we’d like to tell you a little more about her. Carol was our friend in Sonoma...
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Something of Value
Bravo Company 1/26 came off of Hill 881 South on July 10, 1967, and went into battalion reserve at the combat base, first at the west end and then into the trenches on the north side of the perimeter....
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BRAVO! in CHICAGO!
Tomorrow night, BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR will be screened in the Crystal Room at the Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Illinois. Registration will begin at 5:00 PM,...
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