KSV News: Short Round 036
New Website Photos If you have not passed through our web site Photos Bunker recently, I promise it will be a great new adventure. Please find it at: (khesanh.vet/home/khe-sanh-photo-album/ Earlier photos posted on our earlier websites were great at showing personal life in the bunkers and in the wire. They were primarily casual photos of…
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What’s Next? As our band of Khe Sanh Brothers glides gracefully (well- sorta) into our 80th year of surviving, one thing is becoming abundantly clear: “Looks like none of us are gettin’ outta here alive”. So, when our lights go out, what happens with our Khe San Veterans organization?? This is a discussion every member…
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Taking Care Of Our Own Big Sister Program Tragically, but not unexpectedly, we are losing our members at an alarming rate. Many leave behind wives, children and grandchildren as the only ones who will carry on their legacy. Of course, a significant event in that life legacy was the Fallen’s service at Khe Sanh. As…
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Red Clay II – New Articles We all miss getting our quarterly fix when another edition of Red Clay arrived in the mail. Tommy, Ernie and other editors, poured their hearts into telling the story of what happened at Khe Sanh, as told by those of us who were there. And all done in a…
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Red Clay Magazines- Our Digital Afterlife In our prior Short Round newsletter, we discussed how we found a proper and permanent home for every physical copy of our Red Clay magazine collection. Every single one that was ever printed! Wow!!!!! Tommy, Ernie, Craig, Rev Ray and others who had been at the editorial helm of…
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Red Clay Paper Magazines Get A Home In the prior Short Round newsletter, we discussed how LtGen Charles Chiarotti and the Marine Corps Association (MCA) pointed us in the right direction for a permanent home for our Red Clay magazine collection. It turns out that the BGen Edwin H. Simmons History Center, which is housed…
Read MoreNangle, Jr., James Thomas ‘Sparky’
James Thomas ‘Sparky’ Nangle, Jr July 16, 1948 – March 3, 2026 James T. Jr. “Sparky”, age 77, of Drexel Hill PA, formerly of Havertown and Philadelphia, died peacefully at home with his loving wife and stepson by his side on March 3, 2026, preceded by his parents, Beatrice and James Sr., his sisters; Beatrice…
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KSV News: Short Round 030
Preserving All Hard Copy Red Clay Magazines- The Saga Continues In the prior Short Round newsletter, we discussed how we were able to scan and digitize our physical collection of all Red Clay magazines. In this Short Round newsletter, we will discuss the challenges of where and how to preserve our hard copy magazines, newsletters…
Read MoreCahill, Robert “Doc” “Bird”
Robert “Doc” “Bird” Cahill September 20, 1948 – February 22, 2026 Legends don’t die. They just change addresses. Robert “Doc” “Bird” Cahill, 77, passed away on February 22, 2026. February 7 was the last day his family heard his unmistakable voice: sharp, funny, and entirely himself. That evening, he told his daughter he had ordered…
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