Research Links to Web Sites
about the Vietnam War and Vietnam Veterans

[Compiled by Joan McAninch Samuelson, PhD in Loving Memory
of my fiancé Cpl. Michael Alan McAninch, USMC and for All
Vietnam Veterans and Their Loved Ones]

Welcome

These are some of the best sites I have found for
Vietnam Veterans, families, friends, students doing research,
and others wanting to know more about the Vietnam War
and the men and women who served our country. 

THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
  Dedicated to the memory of
  T/Sgt. Richard M. Cole Jr. MIA 6/18/72
  By Beverly Haire © 1998

  I am a whisper on the wind, of times past, of places long forgotton. . .
  Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, A Shau, Saigon, Laos
  Cambodia, Kuwait, Bosnia.
  I am the heart of countless numbers of scarred and maimed veterans,
  and the soul of the buried unknown.

  I am an integral part of each white cross in Flanders Field. . .
  and am sealed within each name on THE WALL.  I am part of each
  and every headstone, either real or imagined,
  of every American soldier in every burial place in the world.

  I am deeply enmeshed in each tiny undiscovered bone fragment
  of American soldiers. . .left behind on foreign soil.
  I am the unseen shadows, the unheard voices in those many empty cells,
  cages, compounds and camps, that once held my brothers
  in unspeakable torture.

  I am the unbearable pain in the hearts of every mother, father, wife,
  sister, brother and child. ..
  of missing American soldiers from all wars.
  I am within each drop of blood the soldiers shed,
  and I am within each of the millions of tears shed in their behalf.

  I am the essence of each cry of pain, each bead of sweat,
  each moment of death. . .of each and every American soldier
  of the past or future.
  I am the lifeblood of the colors of the American flag,
 blue for my loyalty, white for my steadfastness, red for my pride.

  I am the spirit of those many names on the black granite wall. . .
  of those unaccounted for from all wars,
  of those who went away to war as gallant young men and women,
  and came back, older than time. . .OR NOT AT ALL.
  I AM . . . THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER

 ~ ~ ~

We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young

“We were the children of the 1950s and John F. Kennedy’s
young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that
Americans would 'pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship' in the defense of freedom. We were the
down payment on that costly contract, but the man who
signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John
F. Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National
Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill
those slopes with our white marble markers and to ask on
the murmur of the wind if that was truly the future he had
envisioned for us.”

By Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, USA (Ret.)and Joseph L. Galloway

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