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Winning Hearts and Minds

January 27th, 2013

By Jan Barry Fifty years ago, I turned 20 in Saigon, a very drunk and slap happy soldier in the service of the US Military Assistance Command Vietnam. We were making war, when we weren’t doing Happy Hours in every bar from Soc Trang to Da Nang, under slick counter-insurgency slogans like “Winning Hearts and […]

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Tags: Agent Orange, anniversary, poetry, PTSD, suicide, veterans, war, WHAM
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Winning Hearts & Minds Anniversary

October 2nd, 2012

By Jan Barry The Puffin Poetry Jam presents a 40th anniversary celebration of Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans on Friday, Nov. 2, 7-9 p.m. at Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ. The event is a benefit for the Warrior Writers program. $10 suggested donation. Readers include Winning Hearts & Minds […]

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Tags: anniversary, contributors, poetry, vets, Vietnam, Winning Hearts & Minds
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In Memory of Our Girlie Dog Shadow

December 5th, 2011

By Dan Miller Shadow was a beautiful, intelligent and playful Akita. We named her Shadow because she followed us like a shadow. We bought her as a young pup and, like most young pups, she enjoyed chewing on furniture and otherwise being mischievous to show her displeasure when we left her alone for a few […]

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Tags: Akita, anniversary, dogs, farm, finca, horses, Panama, ranch, Shadow
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