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Vietnam War Scrap Spoons Giveaway to Back Purchasers
Purchasers of either Part 1 or Part 2 of Back will be entered into a draw to be held once a month and the winner will receive a spoon made from Vietnam War debris. Just email me your Shipping...
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Visiting a Secret Vietnamese Army Hospital Cave in Laos
Above Photo: Inside the Hospital Cave I recently visited a secret North Vietnamese Army field hospital, hidden in a deep cave at the base of a mountain in Tham Pha, Laos, not far from Phonsavan,...
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The Irony: Saigon’s Most Heavily Guarded Building is The Former US Embassy.
Above Photo: A Vietnamese guard objects to my taking a photograph of a monument commemorating Viet Cong dead in the Tet attack on the former US Embassy, which is located outside the old US Embassy...
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War Vet Gets his Knife Back, 40 years after being wounded by a Vietnamese...
Above Photo: Vet gets his Knife, er, Back Only readers of BACK will fully appreciate why I’m posting this rather quirky news story about a Vietnam Vet being reunited with a possession he lost in...
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Vietnam-War Cluster Bomb Warranties – On Bombs Dropped In Laos?
Above Photo: Vietnam War Cluster Bomb Warranty still attached to a bomb casing in Pa-Am Village, Attapeu, Laos. Being a lawyer, the idea of a warranty on a Vietnam War-era cluster bomb seems...
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British Police Ask Cambridge University Student to Prostitute Himself for...
Above Photo: Aerial shot of Cambridge University. Drug-loving, trouble-making Cambridge University students cause mayhem when they trek into the Laotian jungle with American backpackers in my novel...
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The USA’s ‘Gift’ to Laos from the Vietnam War: Unexploded Ordnance.
I was recently amused to see the above signs juxtaposed on the side of a UXO Lao vehicle. Is it meant ironically? That Laos’ unexploded ordnance is a gift of the government of the United States? Of...
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The Man Who Invented The World’s Favourite War Weapon – the AK-47.
Above Photo: North Vietnamese Army soldiers fire AK-47s during the Vietnam War. Mikhail Kalashnikov designed the AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle, a weapon that has killed more people than any other gun...
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Second to Naan: Shock As Richard “Bran”son’s New Asian Airline Takes to the...
Above Photo: Branson’s New Plane ‘rolls’ off the production line. Famous entrepreneur and airline owner, Richard Branson, today unveiled his prototype for a new Asian airline, which features planes...
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The Jim Bolen SOG Interviews. Extraction from Laos by Helicopter – Under Fire.
Above Photo: Helicopter door gunner in Vietnam, 1968. Jim Bolen was interviewed by Peter Alan Lloyd as part of his research for BACK (see:...
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