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Cpl. John Brack on duty in Afghanistan; below, with his wife.  NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — John Brack bravely served his country in the Marine...

The following is the diary of a local Marine who served in Vietnam in 1968. The veteran wishes to remain anonymous but was willing to share the impressions he wrote down of his time there. This is...

  Growing up, he had a desire to give something back as his dad and uncles were Marines during the Vietnam War era.   Schultze enlisted in May 1997 and, he said, "the recruiter's eyes got real big when he found out I was a college kid who wanted to enlist."    He went to boot camp at the famed Parris Island in South Carolina and described it as "kind of like a root canal, painful at first but necessary to get better." He graduated in August 1997 and was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines at Camp LeJeune in Jacksonville, N.C., where he spent two years in the infantry, participati...

“Every Time the Wind Blew,” a documentary on the Vietnam War, is scheduled to be filmed in Falmouth in October. The film is being co-produced by Susan P. Hunter, who grew up in Scituate and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee; and Wayne Soares, who grew up in Falmouth and now lives in Pittsfield. Ms. Hunter, the author of the book “77 Letters,” about her mother’s efforts to boost the morale of Vietnam War soldiers through writing letters, said the film is “not necessarily going to be about the war itself, but rather the experiences that came out of that war.”

  Born in Ellaville, Ga., Ben Hamilton served his country in the Air Force from 1963 to 1967 as an airman second class. But Airman Hamilton almost never made it to his current age of 77 as he almost suffered a tragic accident at the age of 3.    "We were visiting relatives in Tampa, Fla., and I fell three stories out of a window. I'm still here," he said laughing.   He enlisted with a friend in Springfield through the "Buddy Program," which allows small groups to enlist and train together, at 19 and was sent to basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Bexar County, Texas.