http://www.yourstreet.com/news/vietnam YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us After fleeing Vietnam on a boat with her family in 1975, Bich Minh Nguyen found herself in the tall, blond and devoutly conservative community of Grand Rapids, desperate to figure out just how to be a Michigander and a "real" American. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748784/author-nguyen-struggles-to-balance-her-vietnamese-past-and-michigan-present Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:07:08 -0700 Lots of letters coming in on President Obama's winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Here's a selection. Some of these could see print over the next week.   The Nobel Committee actually did reward President Obama’s success and not just his intentions. Haven’t you... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742282/obama-s-prize-preposterous-or-well-earned- Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:01:08 -0700 Jimmy McMillan, a retired postal office worker, Vietnam veteran and former stripper, is running for mayor as the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739768/a-candidate-s-one-word-battle-with-the-elections-board Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:30:08 -0700 Do you believe in religious freedom? It is something we almost take for granted in our nation and in our world. However, there are places where religious freedom is a precious gift that must be struggled for to make a reality. This is the case in Vietnam. For 39... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739735/ojai-sits-for-religious-freedom Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:54:08 -0700 DESLOGE — Don Nelson spent Friday afternoon visiting the Veterans Traveling Wall with one special purpose in mind. The Park Hills resident etched the name of every soldier from St. Francois County killed in Vietnam. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748087/names-on-wall-give-man-sense-of-peace- Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:47:08 -0700 SouthernFriedInfidel said... Famously (or perhaps apocryphally) before the start of a possible re-election run for 1968, President Johnson was handed a stark choice: Send 1 million soldiers to Vietnam -- a war that was now HIS, though he didn't start it -- or risk... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726514/obama-faces-lbj-style-decision Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:17:08 -0700 Around 500 people attended the memorial service of a South Carolina soldier whose remains were found four decades after he disappeared in Vietnam. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728907/observance-held-for-sc-vietnam-soldier Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:15:08 -0700 Around 500 people attended the memorial service of a South Carolina soldier whose remains were found four decades after he disappeared in Vietnam. Multiple media outlets reported that the Saturday observance for Army Spc. Thomas Rice Jr. included a 21-gun salute and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729106/observance-held-for-sc-vietnam-soldier Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:28:08 -0700 Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an AP investigation has found. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6731511/formula-makers-break-law Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:00:08 -0700 Enough is enough. American politicians and newsrooms need to stop being so intent on stating that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, when there is no evidence of it. The biggest problem is the eternal cultural barrier between the east and west. It cost us dearly... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6727288/iran-s-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-and-nbc-s-ann-curry Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:17:08 -0700 By GEORGE WILL For 11 days in late August and early September in 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian Serbs, who were supported by Serbian Serbs. This was merely the overture to something much more ambitious... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728550/if-nation-building-didn-rsquo-t-work-in-bosnia,-why-would-it-succeed-in- Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:30:08 -0700 Neil Sheehan's 1988 history, "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam," was a stunning accomplishment in war chronicles. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6717967/bob-s-pick-a-bright-shining-lie-john-paul-vann-and-america-in-vietnam- Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:00:08 -0700 At its annual reunion in Santa Clara, the Blackhorse regiment invites relatives of those killed in action to meet the buddies of their loved ones. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6717080/once-alone,-vietnam-vets-reunite Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:45:08 -0700 It took 40 years and a chance encounter for a former Marine to finally get the Purple Heart award for wounds he got in Vietnam. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6721348/vietnam-vet-gets-purple-heart-40-years-later Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:25:08 -0700 Following are the stories on the men lost in Vietnam whose remains were not recovered:1st Lt. James Edward HunsickerArmy, KIA, April 24, 1972It was only well after the Vietnam War ended that John R. Barnes learned his fraternity brother, James Edward Hunsicker, had... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6716454/vietnam-helicopter-pilot-saved-lives Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:14:08 -0700 LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) -- Lyle Ellis is from Onalaska, and he's a Vietnam veteran. "I was there right at the end for the evacuation of Saigon," he says. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6717168/stadium-dedication-honors-veterans Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:05:08 -0700 Wilson was prime material for the Vietnam War. After taking deferment after deferment for college and law school, in 1972, Wilson was glided into a coveted Army Reserve billet, protecting him from service in Vietnam. He quit in 1975 with the fall of Saigon and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6716769/never-deployed-colonel-wilson-missed-vietnam Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:00:08 -0700 BUD KENNEDY A retired Air National Guard general called Thursday with three worries. "Something bad’s gone wrong in this country," said retired Brig. Gen. Tom Daniels, 62, of Fort Worth. "Something’s wrong in Arlington. Something’s wrong in Austin.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6712874/kennedy-retired-general-doesn-rsquo-t-like-what-he-sees-in-today-rsquo-s- Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:22:08 -0700 A Minnesota teenager just started his senior year of high school but he could be deported before he gets the chance to graduate. Patrick Hallahan and his family thought they had legally adopted Win Tran, but because paperwork was not processed in time, the adoption... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6712647/paperwork-snag-may-send-minn-teen-back-to-vietnam Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:18:08 -0700 A veteran Air Force pilot who spent more than six years as a prison of war in Vietnam encouraged students Thursday to set a life mission for themselves. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6710539/pow-inspires-charter-school-cadets Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:57:08 -0700