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Vietnam War veteran Bob Stack honored in Newport Beach for his service Vietnam War veteran Bob Stack, center, shares a fist bump with a fellow club member during a ceremony on Saturday to honor him for his service at Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach. (Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer) Print A local Vietnam War veteran got a hero’s welcome more than 50 years after his deployment on Saturday afternoon. Bob Stack was honored with a ceremony at the Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach, one which included the presence of a color guard from the American Legion and other veterans ...

The Women War Correspondents of Vietnam “You Don’t Belong Here” tells the story of how three women reporters challenged established doctrine and made history covering the war in Vietnam. Catherine Leroy lived an all-but-typical life. Born on the outskirts of Paris a few short months before the end of World War II, she was trained as a classical pianist, and became a licensed parachutist in her teens. In 1966, at age twenty-one, she bought a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia in hopes of covering the conflict in Vietnam, armed only with a Leica M2 camera, a few rolls of film, and a fearles...