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Perfect Pitch
I recently heard someone on the radio talking about an Austrian composer and violinist named Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler who fought with the Austrian army during the early days of World War I. Here is a...
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A Bridge In Pocahontas
On September 15 of this year the folks who live in Pocahontas, Virginia, are going to rename and dedicate the Center Street Bridge, Route 1103, as the “Donald R. Rash Bridge.” Donald Rash was a Marine...
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Big News On The Screening Front–Camp Pendleton, Idaho Public Television,...
Most independent filmmakers produce a film, get it out to the public as far as quickly possible, and then move on to the next project. When Betty and I started this experience of making BRAVO!, we had...
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The Standard Bearers of the 1st Marine Division
On September 13, 2017 the Standard Bearers of Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, hosted a PME for their Marines and Corpsmen. The acronym, PME, stands for Professional Military Education,...
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Fiddler’s Green
Earlier this year, Betty and I saw a documentary film by the director/producer Terry Sanders, titled FIGHTING FOR LIFE. The film recognizes how doctors and other medical personnel are trained at “the...
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Donna Elliott
I bet it seems to our readers that all we ever do is post memorials, requiems, obituaries. I guess it’s inevitable since the Vietnam War is five decades past. The Vietnam Veteran generation is...
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A PARADE!!!
Thirty or so years ago I used to sit around with a buddy of mine and talk about Vietnam. We didn’t serve together overseas but did pull duty together at the Marine Barracks at 32nd Street Naval Station...
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Lt. Colonel Jim Wilkinson
One of the most pleasing things to come to light on my journey with post-combat Khe Sanh Veterans—and veterans of war in general—has been the discovery, by both them and me, of art as a way to process...
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Fifty Years Gone
Today, we start with a series of blogs remembering fifty years ago at the Siege of Khe Sanh as recalled by BRAVO! filmmaker and Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, Ken Rodgers. 25...
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50 Years Ago Today–Spooky
January 20 On today’s date, fifty years ago and the day before the Siege of Khe Sanh erupted, I woke my fire team before first light to go on a work detail. One of the men in my team slept hard and...
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Fifty Years Ago Today–The Big Shebang
Fifty Years Ago Today—January 21, 1968 I jerked awake as one of the Marines in my fire team yanked at my leg and screamed, “Incoming.” Explosions roared and the earth shook. Dust filled the air along...
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January 29–50 Years Gone
Fifty Years Ago—29 January 1968 Right before the siege began, a bunch of new Marines arrived to beef up Bravo Company to nearly its full complement of warriors. One of those Marines was a staff...
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9 February 1968—Fifty Years Ago Today
Early in the sequence of events that make up this blog, I sat on top of a bunker with a Marine as he fired a fifty-caliber machine gun at anything that moved outside the concertina wire. F-4 Phantoms,...
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14 February–Fifty Years Gone
The big, new guy first showed up at Khe Sanh jammed, along with a lot of other Marines, into a C-130 that took incoming upon approaching the combat base. Lots of Jarheads sat on the deck and men on...
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February 21, 1968—Fifty Years Gone
A lot of the great followers of BRAVO! have become personal friends, too. Back when we first dreamed of making a film, Lance and Pam Thompson became some of our initial mentors and have been supporters...
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The Ghost Patrol—Fifty Years Gone
3rd and 1st Platoons of Bravo Company, 1/26 walked into two ambushes that decimated 3rd Platoon and a little later, part of 1st Platoon while it moved to reinforce 3rd Platoon. The event remains one of...
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Lt. Colonel Jim Wilkinson
One of the most pleasing things to come to light on my journey with post-combat Khe Sanh Veterans—and veterans of war in general—has been the discovery, by both them and me, of art as a way to process...
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Fifty Years Gone
Today, we start with a series of blogs remembering fifty years ago at the Siege of Khe Sanh as recalled by BRAVO! filmmaker and Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, Ken Rodgers. 25...
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50 Years Ago Today–Spooky
January 20 On today’s date, fifty years ago and the day before the Siege of Khe Sanh erupted, I woke my fire team before first light to go on a work detail. One of the men in my team slept hard and...
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Fifty Years Ago Today–The Big Shebang
Fifty Years Ago Today—January 21, 1968 I jerked awake as one of the Marines in my fire team yanked at my leg and screamed, “Incoming.” Explosions roared and the earth shook. Dust filled the air along...
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