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Happy birthday 2012 to the United States Marine Corps.  Last year Viet Nam Literature Project marked the occasion by reviewing the Marines who have written about Viet Nam. Wayne Karlin was just one of the authors who let me know … Continue reading →

Jim Smith put Kim Phuong and brother Lam with three cousins on a flight out of Saigon as the Republic of Viet Nam fell.   Their mother Phan Thi Nuoi didn’t make the plane. Jim visited twice as they grew in … Continue reading →

Jane Irish’s new show War Is Not What You Think will be up until March 29 at La Salle University Art Museum and at the Connelly Library.   Jane collaborated with John Baky’s collection Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War. She … Continue reading →

The Allies found murdered civilians as we took Hue back after Tet 1968.  Next year we will review the history. At the time Pham Duy composed a direct response. Khanh Ly still sings it. I am not a plant or … Continue reading →

After the new year Joker and Rafter Man fight through Hue.  Their author Gustav Hasford did it over Tet 1968 as a United States Marine Corps combat correspondent. Joker survives to patrol out from Khe Sanh Combat Base.   He … Continue reading →

Our first writer for the year that starts on Monday is the poet Nguyen Chi Thien.  Thien was the first writer we ever published. The first guest at Tet reflects the aspirations of a household.  Read about Thien in Jonathan … Continue reading →

Eric Henry started playing piano at seven. By high school all he did was make music and read Charles Dickens. The United States Army ordered him into the classroom to learn Vietnamese.  After interviewing deserters and prisoners of war at … Continue reading →

John Parsons Wheeler III graduated near the top of his United States Military Academy class in 1966.  He chose to serve in fire control at a missile base, the front line of our war with the Soviet Union. After the … Continue reading →

Peter Brush arrived at Khe Sanh Combat Base on December 17, 1967.   When he got back home he earned a bachelor and master of arts in history. “Yep, my mother was a Marine. Still is – you know how that … Continue reading →

Next Monday is the birthday of novelist Le Luu.   He was born in 1942. Ho Chi Minh declared independence in August 1945.  After the victory over France in 1954 Le Luu was about the same age as Sai, the small … Continue reading →