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• Spin Control: Honoring all Vietnam vets seems decent thing to do

  October 9, 2011 in City on Page B2 OLYMPIA – It’s never really clear whether coincidence or fate juxtaposes certain events, but there was a peculiar one here last week. For those who didn’t notice, Friday was the … 5

• Veterans at Vietnam memorial moving wall recall their losses

  August 14, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B7 She was with some of those men whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall as they died, said Becky Branson, of Moscow, Idaho. But she can’t say who …

• 43 years after rescue, pilots finally meet

  March 18, 2011 in City on Page A1 MODESTO – Wayne Hague always wondered whatever happened to the pilot whose crippled plane he refueled and escorted to safety over North Vietnam in 1967. Ron Catton always wondered about … 11

• Hmong lose revered leader, 81

  January 8, 2011 in City on Page B3 FRESNO, Calif. – Vang Pao, a fabled military hero and beloved father figure among the international Hmong refugee community, will be honored with a massive funeral “fit for a king” …

• Monument to honor bravery of Spokane soldier and father

  September 11, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page V1 When Army Sgt. 1st Class Bruce A. Grandstaff volunteered for duty in Vietnam in 1966 he left his two young daughters behind. When he lost his life on May 18, … 2

• Soldier’s final mission: Find lost comrade

  March 23, 2010 in City on Page A5 Jerry Dellwo returned home last week from his first visit to Southeast Asia since his adventures as a Green Beret sergeant during the Vietnam War. But this was no vacation. … 2

• McNamara, defense chief during Vietnam War, dies

  July 6, 2009 in Nation/World Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a disastrous conflict he later denounced as “terribly wrong,” died Monday. He was …

• What was left to say

  July 4, 2009 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – They turn up on the granite, in a quiet niche carved into the earth: old medals, photographs, and letters to the dead. “Dear Dad: This is your first …

• Reaching out beyond the wall

      July 3, 2009 in City For more than 22 years, people have been leaving keepsakes and notes at the state’s Vietnam War memorial, a dark green rock wall engraved with the names of the Washingtonians … 1

• Bonded by Vietnam, members of ‘Evergreen Platoon’ reunite

  July 13, 2008 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – In 1968, 80 young men from Washington state stood in their white shirts and thin black ties in the echoing state Capitol and listened to then-Gov. Dan Evans …

• Platoon’s survivors still stick together

  May 26, 2008 in City on Page A1 At a time when the United States was shoring up its military presence in Vietnam, the Marine Corps signed up 80 young men from Washington state and allowed them to …

• Vietnam Heroes Buried Six Airmen Killed During Rescue Attempt Portrayed In ‘Bat 21’

  November 20, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 John Pearson, brother of Sgt. William Pearson of Webster, N.H., and his children, Joshua, 13 and Stephanie, 10, look on during the funeral service for William Pearson and five other …

• Vietnam War heroes reunited

  February 4, 1997 in City on Page B1 Sgt. Jerry Dellwo crouched in a night-blackened Vietnam jungle, soberly calculating his odds of survival at somewhere between slim and anorexic.

• Veterans Hope Flame Is Restored Arena Board To Reconsider Decision Not To Move Burned-Out Memorial

  May 24, 1995 in City on Page B1 Mrs. Galileo Bossio, left, and Mrs. Wesley D. Schierman, whose husbands were in Vietnam, look at the Flame of Hope the day it went into use at the Coliseum in …

• Mia Hunts: 20 Years Of Failure Filmmakers, Bounty Hunters, Politicians Have Exploited Myth

  April 30, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A12 A visitor takes a rubbing of a name at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Photo by Associated Press

• Evacuee Recalls Confusion, Fear In Saigon

  April 30, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Daylight came with the sound of artillery shells bursting in the city on Saigon’s last morning. The sound could only mean that the North Vietnamese army had broken through the …