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John Musgrave
John David Musgrave (born 1948) is an American Vietnam veteran, poet, counselor, and veterans' affairs advocate. Life Musgrave was born in Independence, Missouri in 1948, and graduated from Van Horn High School in Independence in 1966. He enlisted with the Marine Corps just after graduating from high school. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. He served in Vietnam for 11 months and seventeen days before being permanently disabled by his third wound at the battle of Con Thien in November 1967. He was medically retired as a corporal in 1969. He studied at Baker University but graduated with a degree in sociology from Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas in 1972. He was a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He acts with the Theatre of War Project. He was interviewed extensively for the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary ''The Vietnam War''. He appeared with David Longhurst at the Watkins Museum of History for a panel about the war. Musgrave raised money fo ...
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Vietnam Veteran
A Vietnam veteran is an individual who performed active Army, ground, Navy, naval, or Air force, air service in the South Vietnam, Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The term has been used to describe veterans who served in the armed forces of South Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and other South Vietnam–backed allies, whether or not they were stationed in Vietnam during their service. However, the more common usage distinguishes between those who served "in-country" and those who did not serve in Vietnam by referring to the "in-country" veterans as "Vietnam veterans" and the others as "Vietnam-era veterans." Regardless, the Federal government of the United States, U.S. government officially refers to all as "Vietnam-era veterans." In the United States, the term "Vietnam veteran" is not typically used in relation to members of the People's Army of Vietnam or the Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front) due to the United States' alliance with Sou ...
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The Vietnam War (TV Series)
''The Vietnam War'' is a 10-part American television documentary series about the Vietnam War produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and narrated by Peter Coyote. The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017. This series is one of the few PBS series to carry a TV_Parental_Guidelines#TV-MA, TV-MA rating. Production The series cost around $30 million and took more than 10 years to make. It was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who had previously collaborated on ''The War (miniseries), The War'' (2007), ''Baseball (TV series), Baseball: The Tenth Inning'' (2010), and ''Prohibition (miniseries), Prohibition'' (2011). The production companies were WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., and Burns' Ken Burns#Florentine Films, Florentine Films. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The series features interviews with 79 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war or opposed it as Anti-war protest ...
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American Male Poets
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United States Marine Corps Personnel Of The Vietnam War
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1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ...
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Micheal Clodfelter
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Veterans Of Foreign Wars
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is an Voluntary association, organization of United States Armed Forces, United States war veterans who fought in wars, Military campaign, campaigns, and Expeditionary warfare, expeditions on foreign land, waters, or airspace as United States Armed Forces, military service members. Established on September 29, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio, the VFW is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It was Congressional charter, federally chartered in 1936. History The VFW resulted from the amalgamation of several societies formed immediately following the Spanish–American War. In 1899, little groups of veterans returning from campaigning in Cuba and the Philippines, Philippine Islands, founded local societies upon a spirit of comradeship known only to those who faced the dangers of that war side by side. Similar experiences and a common language drew them together. The American Veterans of F ...
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Kansas History
The Kansas Historical Society is the official state historical society of Kansas. Headquartered in Topeka, it operates as "the trustee of the state" for the purpose of maintaining the state's history and operates the Kansas Museum of History, Kansas State Archives and Library, Kansas State Capitol Tour Center, and 16 state-owned sites. It also serves as the State Historic Preservation Office, and works closely with the Kansas State Department of Education to provide standards-based programs for history and social studies curriculum in the schools.KSHS Overview
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History

The Kansas Editors' and Publishers' Association founded the Kansas Historical Society in 1875 to save present and . In 1879, the

The Topeka Capital-Journal
''The Topeka Capital-Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Topeka, Kansas, owned by Gannett. History The paper was formed following numerous name changes and mergers, including the merger of ''The Topeka Daily Capital'' and ''The Topeka State Journal''. Timeline * 1858: The ''Kansas State Record'' starts publishing. * 1873: The ''Topeka Blade'' is founded by J. Clarke Swayze. * 1879: George W. Reed buys the ''Blade'' and changes its name to ''The Kansas State Journal''. * 1879: ''The Topeka Daily Capital'' is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881. * 1885: Frank P. MacLennan buys the ''Journal'' and renames it ''The Topeka State Journal''. * 1888: The ''Capital'' absorbs the ''Commonwealth'', owned by Floyd Perry Baker and his sons, who had earlier bought the ''Kansas State Record''. * 1899: Frederick Oliver Popenoe buys a 51 percent controlling interest in the ''Capital''. * 1900: Charles M. Sheldon, saying " Newspapers should be oper ...
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Lynn Novick
Lynn Novick is an American director and producer of documentary films, widely known for her work with Ken Burns. Early life Novick was born in 1962, raised in New York City, and graduated from Horace Mann School in 1979. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with honors in American Studies. Career Novick was a research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History before beginning her film career as a production assistant at WNET, a public television station in Manhattan. She then worked on Bill Moyers' projects '' Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth'' and '' A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers'' before moving to Florentine Films in 1989 to work on Burns's 1990 series, '' The Civil War'', as associate producer for post production. In 1994, she produced Burns's nine-part series, ''Baseball'', (1994) for which she received an Emmy Award. In 1998, she was director and producer (with Burns) of two-part biographical documentary, ''Frank Ll ...
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Independence, Missouri
Independence is a city in and one of two county seats of Jackson County, Missouri, United States. It is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 2020 United States census, 2020, it had a total population of 123,011, making it the List of cities in Missouri, fifth-most populous city in Missouri. Independence is known as the "Queen City of the Trails" because it was a point of departure for the California Trail, California, Oregon Trail, Oregon, and Santa Fe Trails. It is the hometown of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, with the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Truman Presidential Library and Museum, and the gravesites of Truman and First Lady of the United States, First Lady Bess Truman. The city is sacred to the Latter Day Saint movement, as the home of Joseph Smith's 1831 Temple Lot, and the headquarters of several Mormon denominations. History Independence was originally in ...
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