Captured by Love: Inspiring True Romance Stories from Vietnam POWs
Category: Books
New! How ironic that the Vietnam POWs' physical and mental suffering and years of separation actually helped them create great romance and lasting love. You won't believe the 20 stories from these Top Gun POWs.
WWI Somme American Cemetery (France)
Category: Personal Experiences
Captain Maxson Post 634 Cambridge N.Y.
No longer foes – friends honor the fallen
Category: Personal Experiences
The German and Italian Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) Cemetery on the former Fort McClellan, Ala.
American Legion NSO saves homeless honorably discharged Army disabled veteran's life
Category: Personal Experiences
Arthur C. Timmins, NSO.
65th Infantry Regiment ("The Borinqueneers") memories
Category: Personal Experiences
This report explains how different groups - former members of the 65th Infantry Regiment, other military members and the families of the former members - remember the unit based on different perspectives. For the soldiers of the 65th Infantry Regiment who experienced the event firsthand, it is a story remembered with pain, sadness, disappointment, sacrifice and pride. A war not only with China and its allies but also with those who were supposed to be their most significant support, their officers. Former member Anibal Albertorio stated, “All my experiences were terrible, but I still had my pride and faith; they could not take that away. We did not have the appropriate clothes or armament, which made it so much more challenging; the treatment toward us was unfair and unjust. We had combat fatigue, but nobody cared; enduring that situation was almost impossible.” Other military members remember the 65th Infantry Regiment as a group of old-time warriors, valiant, daring, tough, resilient, proud of their heritage, willing and go-getters; an Anglo Army commander conveyed his feelings about the Borinqueneers: "I do not remember an ethnic group that had greater pride in itself and its heritage, nor have I encountered any group that can be more dedicated and zealous in its support of the democratic principles for which the United States stands. The family members of the former soldiers of the 65th Infantry Regiment remember the Korean War and the circumstances the regiment faced as traumatic, stressful and worrisome. “We prefer to receive the corpses of our sons, killed heroically on the battlefields of Korea, than to have them return stained with the stigma of cowardice,” stated some of the parents of the soldiers to President Dwight Eisenhower.
Veterans Healthcare
Category: Books
VETERANS HEALTHCARE: The Essentials for Improving the Veterans Health Administration by Juan Orellana, MD, MS, FACS Paperback is $14.99 through Amazon.com
"I came to see you, grandpa."
Category: Visual Arts
Children need to be taught respect for our veterans.
National vice commander visits Grove City, Ohio
Category: Personal Experiences
We weren't sure if he'd show up or not! We were on the itinerary but didn't know if he'd have enough time to stop by to see us too!
Semper Paratus - Always Ready
Category: Personal Experiences
The time is now to build the United States Coast Guard Museum.
www.valleyoftheshadowpow.com
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The Flags of My Father It can take a long time, often too long, for a son to recognize the value of his father, in his own life and that of the society he defended. The experience of my father, Col Nicoll F. “Nick” Galbraith, GSC, U.S. Army, has come to me in magnificent proportion with my self-publication of "Valley of the Shadow: An Account of American POWs of the Japanese," published by XLibris in June 2018, revised May 2020. This experience was triggered, now seemingly long ago, by the ambitious year-long exposition of our Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs in 2010, titled So Far From Home: the American POW Experience in World War II, the entire Japanese half of which was my father’s wartime archive, from the surrender of Corregidor in May 1942 and continuing through the three-and-a-half years of infliction as a “guest of the emperor.” As our Galbraith family amalgamated our father’s extensive POW archive, including Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright’s original Corregidor surrender order, that aged, dusty box containing over 1,000 handwritten flimsies was dragged out from a deep family shelf and I began to understand, page by page, what we had. The two flags played an integral part in the Corregidor surrender process and an emotional one in August 1945, when the POWs were rescued/released by a six-man OSS team and the Russian Red Army, both events being very close calls. Col. Galbraith treats these experiences thematically, in third-person narrative format, enabling him to offer a psychological, emotional and moral matrix to help the reader interpret the challenges and personal behaviors of incarcerated American prisoners who suddenly had been deprived of their normal social and physical lives as officers, colleagues, husbands and fathers. Galbraith describes his own and his prison mates’ struggle to maintain their personal dignity and relationships. Whitney H. Galbraith Colorado Springs, Colo. https://www.valleyoftheshadowpow.com