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General Note: Frequency Varies / Subtitle: Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine / Varying Title: VFW Magazine

Publication: November 2007

General Note: 'Ghosts and Demons': Vietnam Vets Coping with PTSD by Heidi Russell Rafferty - Five veterans of Vietnam tell how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have resurrected their own emotional turmoil about a distant war. Their experiences reveal coping mechanisms.

'The Few, the Proud' on Display: National Museum of the Marine Corps by Robert Widener

Learning About Vietnam Through Memorial Center by Richard K. Kolb - The New Jersey Vietnam Educational Center and the soon-to-be Vietnam Memorial Center in Washington, D. C., offer widely divergent approaches to recalling the war.

CIL and DNA: Last Leg of a Journey Home - Inside JPAC: Part IV by Robert Widener
British Memorial Honors All Personnel Killed Since WWII by Claire Santry
Memorial in Ink by Kelly Lanigan
A Final Salute

'Wesco' Mined at My Tho by Shannon Hanson - The USS Westchester County lost 23 Americans on Nov. 1, 1968, to Viet Cong mines. No single U.S. ship sustained greater casualties during the Vietnam War.

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This
Issues Up Front - Agent Orange Update
VFW in Action
Membership
Member Benefits
Reunions & Claims
Young Vets in Focus

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial413749

Citation: VFW, 574Serial413749. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial413749, Accessed 01 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial413749, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive