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By MIKE PRIDE

(The “Monitor” is asking readers to submit short personal anecdotes or accounts of one specific aspect of the Vietnam War, such as a story about combat, a protest march, political action, killed relative or friend, etc. Please keep the accounts under...

By WILL GRAN

About halfway through Episode 3 of Ken Burns’s epic documentary on the Vietnam War, there is a 2½-minute segment on the Marine amphibious landing and securing of a beachhead at Red Beach near Da Nang, South Vietnam, on March 8, 1965. This segment...

By DAVID SANBORN

I note that most of the letters in your Vietnam series are from people who never went to ’Nam or were rear echelon soldiers. For every 13 military personnel, only one actually fights. The others are support people.This means they get dry beds, three...