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New Members Join Veterans` Department Advisory Committee

The nine-member Committee was formed by statute in 1945.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs today welcomed four new members to the Department’s Advisory Committee, including the Committee’s first Native American member, a Vietnam era veteran, a Gulf War era veteran, and an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran.

Leaving the board are Staryl C. Austin, Jr. of Salem, both a World War II and Korean War veteran; Furlton M. Burns of Portland, a Vietnam veteran; Walter R. Crews of Aurora, a Korea and Vietnam era veteran; and Robert Haltiner of Oregon City, a Vietnam Veteran.

My Lai Massacre in Vietnam Happened 40 Years Ago this Weekend

Did our society learn from this one? In spite of some problems, the number of similar events today is comparatively very low.

(SALEM, Ore.) - As the United States spends each waking day fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we find ourselves facing the 40th anniversary of our military's darkest moment; the massacre at a series of villages in Vietnam, generally remembered as My Lai.

Who Really Spat on Veterans During the Vietnam War?

"Nixon used hippies as political footballs. Every time there was a rally, orders were given to bust heads" - Redford Givens, San Francisco War Protester

(SALEM, Ore.) - Americans overwhelmingly believe that U.S. combat veterans returning from Vietnam were spit on by anti-war protesters in airports.

Many vets will tell you it happened, and others will tell you that they never saw anything close to it.

Op-Ed: Forgetting History Means Repeating the Mistakes of Vietnam

America’s Memory Span Doesn’t Account for 40 Years, if it did our nation's leaders would never have allowed criminals into the U.S. military.

(SALEM) - Increasing numbers of war crimes in Iraq equate to a tragic lesson in history repeated, history that should have been learned in Vietnam.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the New York Times released the news this week that the United States now allows convicted criminals, racist nazi gang members, to join the U.S. military. This news comes as Americans reel from one report after another about U.S. soldiers and Marines committing acts of rape and murder in Iraq.