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On Drones, Ghosts, Facebook and the O-2 Skymaster
I recently ran onto a spoof written last summer that satirized both Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Google. In the article, Zuckerberg threatened to have Facebook shoot down all of Google’s drones....
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Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory
In the 1960s and 1970s,there was the Cold War There was the Vietnam War And there were the wars we fought at home. The older I get the more I find myself seeing multiple sides of the same issue. I am...
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BRAVO! Accepted into the G I Film Festival San Diego
We have great news to announce! BRAVO! has been accepted in the inaugural GI Film Festival San Diego! Thanks to the Skipper (Ken Pipes) and his son and daughter-in-law, Tim and Sandra, we learned about...
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The Humanities and the War in Vietnam
History, political science, anthropology, psychology, law, sociology, music, literature, film! Plus the Vietnam War! Last week Betty and I had the immense pleasure of participating in a symposium on...
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What’s Happened and What’s Up!
It was a grand day in San Diego when BRAVO! was awarded the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the GI Film Festival San Diego. Co-producers Ken and Betty Rodgers were joined by Bravo Skipper Ken...
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November Remembered
Ken and I often ponder the life of BRAVO! and marvel at its journey. This November, for example. The Veteran Services Office and Omega Sigma Delta hosted Boise State University’s 2nd annual Veterans...
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Giving Thanks
December is the season of short days, long chilly nights and reflection on what has passed and what is to come. For many it is a season of giving and of thanks. Recently, Betty and I have been thinking...
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After 48 Years, Pondering the Siege and the Men Who Fought There
This time of year with all the celebratory hoorah around the holidays, I tend to let the Siege and its ramifications lie fallow while I have a good time with family and friends. But after January 1, I...
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BRAVO! Gains International Recognition!
Today’s guest blogger, the United Kingdom’s John Henden, ruminates on BRAVO! BRAVO! A REVIEW BY JOHN HENDEN Bravo! is a documentary film which is neither pro-war nor anti-war. Using an extensive...
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On Navy Corpsmen
FLEET MARINE FORCE (FMF) Navy Corpsman In today’s guest blog, BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara muses on Navy Corpsmen and Marines The latter part of 2015 was not especially kind to me. I had a serious...
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On Warriors, Professional Athletes, the Super Bowl and the Siege of Khe Sanh
During the winter season the National Football League playoffs are juxtaposed with the anniversary of the Siege of Khe Sanh. Teams from the NFL bang heads in the tournament push to the Super Bowl and I...
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On War Poetry
In 1968, on today’s date, January 27, the Marines in the trenches at Khe Sanh were beginning to realize that what began on January 20-21, 1968, would turn into a period of horror and death and...
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In Search of My Father (Part One)
Today’s guest blogger, Ron Reyes, blogs about his father, also Ron Reyes, who was killed in action at Khe Sanh on March 30, 1968, a date of some importance to the men of BRAVO! This is part one of a...
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In Search of My Father (Part 2)
Guest blogger Ron Reyes’ continuing story of his search to discover more about his father who was killed in action at Khe Sanh on March 30, 1968. “We weren’t in Khe Sanh.” I am wondering what he is...
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On February 25th
Forty-eight years ago on February 25, 1968, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s Third and First Platoons were trapped in a nasty ambush that has since become something of a legend in...
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Requiem for Ex
One of the things about the war in Vietnam was the importance of body counts of enemy dead. Yet what body counts don’t tell you is the human side of those people who were killed. So much of what we...
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BRAVO! To Receive 2016 Major Norman Hatch Award
After we put our first cut of BRAVO! in the can, I remember talking to one of the filmmakers we met during the editing process. An award winner himself, he talked about BRAVO! being a film that ought...
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THE LONG GOODBYE: Khe Sanh Remembered
Today’s guest blogger, Mike Archer, is an author, Marine and survivor of the Siege of Khe Sanh. Mike shares information on his books, his friend Tom Mahoney and efforts to find Tom’s remains...
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They Put Their Trousers On Just Like You Do
It was a heady experience being at the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Awards Ceremony at the National Museum of the Marine Corps outside the gates of Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia....
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The Basic School at Quantico
In the last BRAVO! blog we wrote briefly about a visit we made to The Basic School (TBS) at Camp Barrett on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. While at the National Museum of the Marine Corps,...
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