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Monday, May 26, 2025
Mourning in America | West Virginia Town Grieves Local Vietnam War Death (1965)
On 15 December 1965, ITN's Peter Woods travelled to Wayne, West Virginia, to explore the emotional impact of the Vietnam War on small American towns. Local boy, Darrell Sanders had died fighting just weeks before he was due to be discharged from the army, leaving behind his father, sister and young fiancée.
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Wayne is my county seat and the nearest stores to me unless we cross the Big Sandy and go to Kentucky. I can take you straight to every place in the video, not much has changed, except Meth and tattoos have taken root. Still very poor. Still an amazingly high trust area, though. I don’t fear my neighbors. There’s a sense of dignity and self reliance you’re hard pressed to find anywhere else on this earth. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteBeen though there a few times. I liked the mother that said she would expect her son to , " Take a mans part in a man's world." I reckon that is still the attitude there today. Good, good folk.
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