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12 October 2000 . . . . . . When another chapter in the Long War against terror was written in the blood of the free: The toll: * Seventeen American Sailors dead: Hull Maintenance Technician Second Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, 21, of Mechanicsville, Va. Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow, 35, of Morrisville,…

Americans At War

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One of the things the Naval Institute has gotten right of late is the living history project (don’t get us started on the direction and content of Proceedings…).  The latest manifestation ofthe living history project is Americans at War – a series of vignettes from WW2 to the present of Americans witnessing to extraordinary times…

POW/MIA: Of “Thuds,” ROLLING THUNDER and an Airman From Red Wing – 1965

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By 1965, the US participation in Vietnam was reaching a juncture where it could choose to disengage (and thus concede the loss of South Vietnam to the Communist juggernaut – which then would then sweep across the rest of the SE Asia landscape).  It could “stay the course,” with a limited ground role using advisers…