by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 21, 2025 | Gaza, Indian history, Israel, Netanyahu, Vietnam
In Monday’s news from Palestine, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Hamas is “willing to discuss a hostage deal only due to the fear that we intend to invade Gaza,” adding that “conquering Gaza City will lead to Hamas’...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 24, 2025 | 1968, Civil Rights, fire, martin luther king, President Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam
1968 was a hard year in America. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy rocked us, and the riots and fires that followed on the streets of cities, including Washington D.C., made it seem like an all-out revolution or civil war might come. Civil...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 20, 2025 | Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Movement, martin luther king, Peace Corps, Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Vietnam legacy
In a brief essay in Sunday’s (January 19) Washington Post, Jonathan Eig, author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography, writes: “We can begin by remembering that, until his death in 1968, King had never gained the approval of most White...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2020 | 60s, assassinations, Civil Rights, Cold War, COVID-19, Kennedy, riots, Vietnam
In junior high in the 1950s we read secreted copies of Battle Cry on the bus—there were four-letter words—and watched movies of war heroics. I remember real war hero Audie Murphy in “To Hell and Back,” actors William Holden and Alec Guinness in “The Bridge on the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 23, 2020 | Back to the land, coronavirus, COVID-19, draft lottery, Vietnam
I have four grandchildren between the ages of 18 and 23. I’ve told them that coronavirus is their Vietnam. It will be the event they will remember when they are my age, as I remember Vietnam for its horror and its impact on my life. I was born in 1942, so skated by...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 18, 2016 | Alcatraz occupation, Aleppo, Alvin Josephy, Burns, Cuba, Diyarbakir, Donald Trump, Indian Country Today, Iran, Kurds, martin luther king, Middle East, MLK, President Obama, Shiites, Sunnis, Turks, Vietnam
So take courage! Friends here in Northeast Oregon are upset with the goings on in neighboring Burns. One group “occupied” a local Oregon Wildlife Refuge one evening with binoculars and beer. Most of “my” friends would like to see the government stand up and oust the...
