Short Rounds Newsletter

Editor: Bob Koury

A weekly email & text to our members with linked Featured Story on khesanh.vet.

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Lao Bao and Co Roc Everyone who spent time at Khe Sanh, especially during the months surrounding the Siege, will never forget the name Co Roc.  That geographic border feature…

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A MedEvac Story After a while, we began to take MedEvac missions as something ordinary and to be expected. But virtually every one of them was an individual story of…

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Reunion 2026 Preview Hotel Information: The 2026 Khe Sanh Veterans Reunion will be held in San Antonio, TX. The dates for this years KSV Reunion are September 13 thru 20, three…

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War Has Changed I simply have to share the attached two analyses of how the Ukrainians have overcome so much in the defense of their homeland.  No idea if they…

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A Heroic Event Remembered (Thank you Mike Fishbaugh) It was in such a bunker that Dr. Feldman received Pfc. Robert Mussari who was brought in with a live 81mm shell…

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Khe Sanh Veterans, Inc. Scholarship Fund 2026 January 1, 2026 begins a new season for the Scholarship Fund. Your kind patience during the 2025 pause was much appreciated by the…

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Your Web Site Grows It is simply remarkable how much new information is available on your new website (khesanh.vet). There has been a ton written about the battle. Some of…

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STARS & STRIPES Agent Orange linked to rare blood cancer that develops over decades By Linda F, Hersey Stars and Stripes • December 9, 2025 WASHINGTON — Vietnam War veterans…

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Message / Discussion Board We just received the question below from KSVet William Boan.  Answering his inquiry, and more like it, is one of the main reasons we have invested…

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Red Clay II Articles No one is quite sure how, but Tommy always seemed to find enough great articles to fill the Red Clay magazines every quarter. As did all…

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2025 Vietnam Memorial Veterans Day Ceremonies, Washington, DC This year on Veterans Day 2025, Khe Sanh Veterans continued the legacy of laying a wreath during the annual Veterans Day Ceremonies…

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In Her Father’s Footsteps Following is a short message from Melissa Georgesen, daughter of a KSV Fallen Member, Kenneth Martin (1948-2015),  Her run honored him and other Marines: On October…

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KSV 2025 Reunion Recap From Russ Turner – President I would like to provide an update for members who were unable to attend the recent Reunion. The event was highly…

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From Your President: A Birthday Tribute to Marine Corps Veterans Honoring Courage, Sacrifice, and Brotherhood On this 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps, I extend my deepest gratitude…

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Red Clay Magazines- Every Single One Your new KSV website khesanh.vet is full of just tons of great materials.  We believe the hallmark feature is digitally providing you every single…

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Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #011    Honoring Our Fallen And Their Families. We have no higher obligation and duty.  For decades, we have honored our Khe Sanh Fallen…

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Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #010 KSV Scholarships The KSV Scholarship Program is one of the most important things we do as an organization. By helping the direct relatives…

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Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #009    Your Photos, Please Every picture is worth 1,000 words.  In our case, every Khe Sanh photo taken has a story that is…

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Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #008 KSV Member Communications As much as it pains us, we are now forced to use group emails and texts to stay in contact…

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Reunion 2025 Grab your beach blanket and sunscreen and join us for the 2025 KSV Reunion!  We are gearing up for a fun time at the superb Holiday Inn Resort,…

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Refurbished Message Board We have been agonizing about whether or not to include the prior message board on our new KSV website. It has been an “open access” message board…

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Help Desk Kathy is organizing a group of volunteers to not only forward all incoming email appropriately (Short Round 004), but to also serve as our “Help Desk Team”. This…

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KSV Members Private Email Using Our KSV Private (Email) Mailbox: admin@khesanh.vet Amazingly, in our lifetimes, the digital world has migrated from punch cards to ubiquitous Internet and social media.  When…

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KSV Leadership Team- Help Needed With Tommy’s passing, all of our leadership team is going to have to carry a heavier load. We have just added several “Managers” to our…

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Moving Forward II With Tommy’s passing, we have his boots to fill and a lot more. The only way to do this is to share the load.  In addition to…

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Moving Forward Welcome to your new Khe Sanh Veterans “Short Rounds”.  Approximately weekly, we will send you a few paragraphs of interesting information about KSV.  And maybe an article or…