By Don North
Distinguished journalist, author and military historian Jack Edward Pulwers died March 29, 2011 at Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, Va. of extended illness after congestive heart failure. [Read more...]
Commemoration Commission agrees to strike Nixon quote
March 17, 2011 By
MRE Vice President Don North sent a letter on behalf of the organization to the Vietnam War Commemoration Program Office in January 2011. His letter focused on the quote found on the commemoration’s website by President Richard M. Nixon “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam war. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” [Read more...]
Joshua Kors interviews Restrepo’s Sebastian Junger
February 22, 2011 By
MRE member Joshua Kors is a hard-core investigative reporter, so don’t think this is just a softball Hollywood interview. Kors asks tough questions with Sebastian Junger responding candidly about his Oscar-nominated film “Restrepo.” [Read more...]
Sig Christenson: The link between deployments and suicides
February 20, 2011 By
Maybe an hour had passed since I filed our first blog on last Sunday’s story, “The War Within,” when a new report on military suicides came out. [Read more...]
Veteran war reporters rip Limbaugh on detained reporter comments
February 4, 2011 By
By Joe Strupp
Media Matters for America
(Three MRE members are quoted in this story.)
Rush Limbaugh’s dismissive comments about detained New York Times reporters in Cairo have drawn sharp criticism from several veteran war correspondents – including a longtime Times war reporter – as well as those who monitor journalist safety overseas. [Read more...]
Remembering ‘Zorro’s’ Vietnam Legacy
February 1, 2011 By
By Don North
MRE board member
Barry Zorthian, who died last month at the age of 90, was one of the last surviving U.S government officials who shaped America’s role in the Vietnam War, a man who also stood at the shadowy intersection between press management and psychological warfare. [Read more...]
Pentagon-sponsored website blames media for ‘misreporting’ Vietnam
January 19, 2011 By
January 18, 2011
Vietnam War Commemoration Program Office
2521 S. Clark St. Suite 650,
Arlington, VA. 22202
Dear Sir or Madam;
At the top of the home page of your website you have prominently displayed a quote by President Richard Nixon.
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam war. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” New York Times, March 28, 1985.
It would appear to be a keynote statement designed to characterize your attitude to the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. [Read more...]
The world’s crisis in war reporting (part 1)
November 24, 2010 By
By Don North
MRE’s Vice President
At this complex and dangerous moment in history, we must recognize that journalists around the world are failing in their duty as watchdogs of the people and that – combined with economic stresses – the traditional role of journalism is diminishing. [Read more...]
The world’s crisis in war reporting (part 2)
November 24, 2010 By
By Don North
MRE Vice President
Hal Buell, former photo editor for the Associated Press in Asia, in an article for Vietnam Magazine wrote: [Read more...]
MRE member Alex Quade hands out awards
November 17, 2010 By
MRE member Alex Quade joined former Vice President Dan Quayle and others to present awards recognizing troops, policemen, firefighters and teachers over the Veterans Day holiday. [Read more...]
