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Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger earned the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on March 11, 1968.

During the Vietnam War, American Special Forces sought out the help of the Indigenous Montagnard peoples of Vietnam.

Credit United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR Radio Reader’s Book Club  The book is “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman. In 1979, three years after a failed previous escape and three years before Lia was born to the Lees, her family was part of a group of some 400 Hmong who escaped westward to Thailand, as their Vietnamese captors pursued them, setting fires and land mines. From there...

How Vietnamese Commandos Captured a Secret U.S. Military Base This base was one of many ‘Lima Sites’ in Laos intended to facilitate aerial supply of U.S.-allied forces. Heres What You Need to Remember: Only thirty years later did the United States officially acknowledge the battle at the clandestine site. Etchberger would finally be awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony on September 1, 2010. Earlier in the 2000s, Vietnamese veterans of the battle helped U.S. military personnel locate th...