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Barry Romo (3:24)

Fresh out of high school, Barry Romo enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve in Vietnam. Romo was awarded a bronze star for his efforts but grew disillusioned with the war and later joined a controversial group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

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  • Barry Romo
    Barry Romo

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    Fresh out of high school, Barry Romo enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve in Vietnam. Romo was awarded a bronze star for his efforts but grew disillusioned with the war and later joined a controversial group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

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  • Keith Connolly
    Keith Connolly

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    Air Force pilot Keith Connolly was among the first USAF units to be stationed within South Vietnam. During his second tour, he flew F-4 Phantoms targeting the Ho Chi Minh Trail and witnessed two of his men go missing after his plane had been hit.

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  • A Soldier's Story: Khe Sanh
    A Soldier's Story: Khe Sanh

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    Amid a siege that would last 77 days, medic Raymond Torres was dropped into central Vietnam.

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  • Veteran's Home Movies
    Veteran's Home Movies

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    Find out why more veterans came home with home movies from Vietnam and how they helped give Vietnam in HD a unique perspective of the war.

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  • On Patrol
    On Patrol

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    In the field, many soldiers spent their time on patrol, seeking out communist forces, and avoiding lethal booby traps.

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  • Arthur Wiknik
    Arthur Wiknik

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    As an 18-year-old draftee, Arthur Wiknik was rushed through officer candidate's school. After one month in Vietnam he found himself in the middle of the battle of "Hamburger Hill"--one of the most notorious battles of the war.

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  • Bob Clewell
    Bob Clewell

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    Bob Clewell dropped out of college to join the Army, and arrive in Vietnam just weeks after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. During his third tour, he was trained as a helicopter pilot, providing air support for ground troops during the Lam Son 719 offensive.

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  • Raymond Torres
    Raymond Torres

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    Navy medic Raymond Torres joined the Navy to attend medical school and was assigned to a Marine Corps company. While tending to wounded Marines during the Khe Sanh battle, Torres was critically injured when a grenade exploded near him.

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  • Gery Benedetti
    Gery Benedetti

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    Gery Benedetti was a member of the "Brown Water River Rats," whose missions were a crucial but dangerous component of the American combat operation in Vietnam.

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  • Donald Devore
    Donald Devore

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    in the summer of 1968, Donald Devore was drafted and sent off to basic training. Devore was assigned to an artillery unit in Vietnam and after four months, was granted leave to attend the birth of his first child.

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Speeches & Audio (10)

  • Nixon Reelected to Presidency
    Nixon Reelected to Presidency

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    On November 7, 1972, incumbent President Richard Nixon won a second term in a landslide victory over Democrat George McGovern. In a brief statement from the Oval Office, President Nixon promises to bring "peace with honor" in Vietnam and to usher in a "new era of peace" with the Soviet Union.

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  • Ford's Address at the Helsinki Conference
    Ford's Address at the Helsinki Conference

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    On August 1, 1975, at the Helsinki Accords, a major diplomatic agreement was signed by 35 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, in an attempt to secure peace between the eastern and western blocs. In a speech delivered at the Finland conference, President Gerald Ford promises to do his part for the good of all nations.

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  • Bush and Gorbachev Sign the START I Treaty
    Bush and Gorbachev Sign the START I Treaty

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    On July 31, 1991, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was signed in Moscow by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, committing each superpower to reducing nuclear arms by a third. In a press conference held at the Kremlin, President Bush discusses the economic cooperation implicit in the peace negotiations.

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  • Bush and Gorbachev Declare End of Cold War
    Bush and Gorbachev Declare End of Cold War

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    President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared an end to the Cold War at the Malta Summit on December 3, 1989. At a joint press conference aboard the Soviet passenger liner Maxim Gorky in Marsaxlokk Harbor, President Bush speaks about his hopes for a cooperative U.S.-Soviet relationship.

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  • Eisenhower's Inaugural Address
    Eisenhower's Inaugural Address

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    When Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th president of the United States on January 20, 1953, his inaugural address lays out a nine-point plan for achieving world peace.

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  • Nixon's Second Inaugural Address
    Nixon's Second Inaugural Address

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    After a landslide reelection victory, incumbent President Richard Nixon stresses America's role in the pursuit of world peace during his second inaugural address, delivered on January 20, 1973.

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  • Eisenhower on the Second Berlin Crisis
    Eisenhower on the Second Berlin Crisis

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    In November 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded that Western forces pull out of West Berlin in six months. On March 16, 1959, in a radio and television report to the American people, President Eisenhower speaks of the escalating Cold War tensions over Berlin, stressing that the United States will not give in to pressure from the USSR.

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

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    On March 3, 1933, the newly elected president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, promises a country battered by the Great Depression a renewed prosperity, setting forth plans to put the government to work.

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  • Eisenhower Returns From Cancelled Summit Meeting
    Eisenhower Returns From Cancelled Summit Meeting

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    On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over central Russia. As a result, the Paris Summit Conference, scheduled 13 days later, collapsed. Upon his return from the failed conference on May 20, President Eisenhower addresses the welcoming crowd at Andrews Air Force Base.

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  • Reagan Addresses British Parliament
    Reagan Addresses British Parliament

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    On June 8, 1982, in the first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan presents his hope for a future that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history."

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