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

Publication: February 2002

General Note: Cover Story
Hollywood Gets Vietnam Right This Time by Joe Galloway - Starring Mel Gibson, this film about the 1965 Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam promises to be a blockbuster. Its poitive protrayal of GIs is long overdue.

'Stiletto' Strikes on 'Sleeper Cells' in Somalia? by Tim Dyhouse
Securing Your Health: A Pri.mier on Long-Term Care Coverage by Gary Turbak

Features
War on Terrorism: 101st Airborne Replaces Marines in Afghanistan
'Who Dares Wins': Britain's SAS in Action by Paul Harris
'Strike Swiftly and Deeply' by Trevor Royle
VFW Service Officers Make the Difference by Janie Blankenship
Is Your Sight in Danger? by Norman Brown
'Angels of the Battlefield': Nurses in Korea by Jean Kirnak
Reunion Form

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This
Membership
Member Benefits
VFW in Action
Jest A Minute
Reunions & Claims

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial72100

Citation: VFW, 574Serial72100. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial72100, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial72100, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive