Short Rounds Newsletter

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Digitizing All Red Clay Magazines- The Saga Continues In Short Round edition # 028, we discussed how, after Tommy’s passing, we were able to collect all of the Red Clay publications EVER produced. So……… now we had them all in one place / pile. What to do next? It became painfully obvious that having a…

Collecting All Red Clay Magazines- The Saga After Tommy’s passing, it was obvious that we had to do something to collect and preserve all of the Red Clay magazines ever produced. We owed that not only to Tommy and Rev Stubbe, but to every single editor and author who had a hand in creating them.…

We just received the attached document from: United States Marine Corps Marine Corps University Marine Corps History Division Quantico, VA It is the Deed Of Gift for every single Red Clay Magazine ever produced!!! Along with many associated articles and related materials in the collection.  Basically, pretty much everything ever produced and printed by The…