President Ronald Reagan wasn't coming because of what the White House called "security concerns" and so it fell to a veteran who had been a prisoner of war ... of the Americal Division in 1968 ...

Few Americans born after the Tet Offensive know even the barest facts about the Vietnam ... Americal Division’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry—not because it wasn’t an ...

On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the ... his conversations with a Vietnam veteran, Ron Ridenhour. Ridenhour learned ...

Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968, he served in the 23rd Infantry Division, also known as the Americal Division ... it means that in war — and probably any war, not just Vietnam — it ...