High above the clouds, Hector Acosta is getting a unique view that most of us don’t get to experience.
“It’s a shame,” Acosta said. “If more Americans could experience this, it would be awesome.
Although it’s unique, it’s not the first time Acosta has been inside an Air Force jet above the clouds.
On a granite wall in Washington, D.C., the story of Capt. Edward A. Brudno’s suffering remains untold. There is no recognition of the beatings he took or the interrogations he resisted – nothing that acknowledges 7 1/2 years of captivity in a windowless room. Three decades after being tortured in
U.S. Air Force 1955-1976Cold War 1955-1976Vietnam War 1965-1973 (POW)William Burroughs was born on September 29, 1932, in Indianhead, Maryland. He entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1951 and was commissioned a 2d Lt in the U.S. Air Force on June 3, 1955. Lt Burroughs graduated from Undergraduate
A retired Air Force pilot from Marietta, who was a prisoner of war in north Vietnam for six years, was back in Hanoi this week, so he could be there on the same day, 50 years ago—March 4, 1973—when he was freed and when his second chance at life began,
A man died Monday in Franklin, North Carolina, as a result of wounds he received in Vietnam more than 40 years ago. None of you knew him, but we would like you to join us in honoring his memory. His name was Nathan B. Henry. On July 12, 1967, Nat