An Missouri man who refused Marine Corps training during the Vietnam War pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $125,000 in disability-related benefits.
The "Jessie's Girl" hitmaker, now 77, told Joe Rogan he threw mortar bombs during a 1968 attack in South Vietnam, and learned the next day that one of his rounds killed a man, a memory he says still haunts him. Rick Springfield was 19 years old and chasing a paycheck. In 1968, the Australian-born musician […] The post Rick Springfield reveals he killed a man with a mortar during Vietnam War appeared first on American Almanac .
The "Jessie's Girl" hitmaker, now 77, told Joe Rogan he threw mortar bombs during a 1968 attack in South Vietnam, and learned the next day that one of his rounds killed a man, a memory he says still haunts him. Rick Springfield was 19 years old and chasing a paycheck. In 1968, the Australian-born musician traveled to South Vietnam with his band, MPD Limited, to entertain troops. The group stayed roughly four months. What Springfield brought home was not money, he says they spent what little they earned at the military post exchange, but a burden he carried for more than half a century before speaking about it publicly on The Joe Rogan Experience. Springfield told Rogan that during his stay, he and his bandmates befriended a group of…Open
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David Jacobson has been collecting evidence about an ambush on Hill 861 and the actions by his father, Russell H. Jacobson Jr., to treat the wounded.
Ben Affleck's mother, Chris Affleck, died at 83 from cardiopulmonary arrest linked to pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis her doctors gave her roughly six months before she passed at her son's home. A death certificate and a family obituary published in the Boston Globe have filled in the details surrounding the June 2 death of Chris […] The post Chris Affleck died of cardiopulmonary arrest after pancreatic cancer battle, death certificate shows appeared first on American Almanac .
Ben Affleck's mother, Chris Affleck, died at 83 from cardiopulmonary arrest linked to pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis her doctors gave her roughly six months before she passed at her son's home. A death certificate and a family obituary published in the Boston Globe have filled in the details surrounding the June 2 death of Chris Affleck, the longtime public school teacher and mother of Oscar winners Ben and Casey Affleck. USA TODAY reported that the certificate lists cardiopulmonary arrest as the cause of death, with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, a form of pancreatic cancer, named as a contributing condition. Chris Affleck died at 10:52 a.m. on June 2 at a residence the death certificate describes as a "visiting son's residence." The…Open
Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. The post Why All The Hype For Nixon? appeared first on The American Conservative .
History Why All The Hype For Nixon? Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images) More than three decades after his death, Richard Milhouse Nixon is finally having his moment. A new generation of conservatives has come to admire the 37th president. They see him as the model Republican leader, far superior to Ronald Reagan and even Donald Trump. Hype edits of his speeches regularly go viral on social media. To those who partake in Nixonmaxxing, as the phenomenon has been dubbed, he is the man who nearly saved America—until the deep state took him out. On the one…Open
Trump compares Iran deaths to Vietnam, Afghanistan totals
Jim Gilstrap, the R&B singer who opened Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and sang the theme to the landmark sitcom "Good Times," died Saturday of natural causes in Los Angeles, he was 79. Gilstrap's nephew and family spokesperson, Geoffrey "Geoff Gil" Gilstrap, confirmed the death to The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. […] The post Jim Gilstrap, voice behind the 'Good Times' theme and Stevie Wonder's 'Sunshine,' dead at 79 appeared first on American Almanac .
Jim Gilstrap, the R&B singer who opened Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and sang the theme to the landmark sitcom "Good Times," died Saturday of natural causes in Los Angeles, he was 79. Gilstrap's nephew and family spokesperson, Geoffrey "Geoff Gil" Gilstrap, confirmed the death to The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. No specific illness or condition was disclosed. Representatives for the singer could not be reached for comment at the time the news broke. For millions of Americans, Gilstrap's voice was the sound of two cultural touchstones: a No. 1 pop hit and a television theme song that defined an era. His career spanned decades, from Vietnam-era military service to studio sessions with artists ranging from Aretha…Open
Cautions for veterans about fireworks, a new cemetery in the Alaska interior, and a Puerto Rican Vietnam hero is nominated for the medal of honor.
Iran doesn’t have to be America’s reckoning. The post Lose the Battle, Win the Century appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Lose the Battle, Win the Century Iran doesn’t have to be America’s reckoning. Washington is once again in the throes of a postwar autopsy. Did the United States win in Iran? America’s latest military operation was launched, seemingly, to achieve regime change and permanent denuclearization. It ended with a messy ceasefire, a still-defiant adversary, and a war powers debate Congress will never resolve. By the standards Washington set for itself, the campaign did not deliver. Tehran’s government did not collapse. The Strait of Hormuz blockade dragged on for months. And it was a negotiated ceasefire, not the final…Open