vietnam war-- strongly affected by it, strongly affected the outcome, strongly affected the length of that war. we know that now. we looked at this, and we said, "jeez, you know, nobody's looking at it as what it is." how did it get here? where did it-- nobody mandated, "there shall be benefits," you know? how did this come about? well, right away, you run into the name pete seeger. right away you run into woody guthrie. we--i asked david to research it, and david came back with, there is no other work written on this subject, and that was irresistible to us. you know, we feel very strongly about it. we knew we had an advantage if we went to speak to the people who do it, you know? i don't have to walk in cold. i'm not, you know--it's like, "how did you boys meet?" i know, you know, who i'm talking to, and generally, we're at least acquaintances if not close friends, and we're talking about events that we did together or that we've done, you know, separately, but the same event, you know, at different times. and it gave us a window into these people that other people didn't have. we a

he is the first living person to receive the medal of honor since the vietnam war.tober 25th, 2007. gun fire hit him in the chest and yet he got up and ran straight into the ambush to help three wounded soldiers. joining me here is retired army colonel jack jacobs and mike jakoff. colonel, let me again with you. describe if you will what made sergeant giunta's actions so heroic on that day. >> it has to be an action that is above and beyond. it has to be something which if you didn't perform it you couldn't be faulted. but i think the best take on this whole thing came from bob kerry who was an s.e.a.l. and governor of nebraska subsequently. senator from nebraska for a couple of terms. somebody asked him what does it take to get a medal of honor? he said, you have to do something, people have to see it and they have to be able to write and can't hate you. the whole point of it and it's something that sergeant giunta said a couple of days ago. there are lots of people who do lots of things and people don't see it. they see it but they're killed. >> paul, describe wha

north bay town helps unite veterans and >>> when you think of the vietnam war you might not think of taluma but a new exhibit in the heart of the town helps unite the veterans and citizens of the war for the first time. photojournalist jerry watson brings us the story. ♪ when duty called... ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: a collection of familiar images, mundane artifacts and a travel poster full of irony from the vietnam war era. they are part of an exhibit at the petaluma museum assembled by those who experienced the war firsthand. >> i like to think this display is not just about me but all the guys i flew with when i was in vietnam. >> reporter: tony was a 19-year- old helicopter gunner who survived two tours in vietnam. >> we never thought about getting shot down or dying but at any time all four of us could die together. >> often during the night when you sleep there would be a big explosion. we would just get up and run. >> reporter: she was eight when she and her family escaped the fall of saigon then survived the boat exodus. >> there was like 72 of us on a very small little junket

my name is ray, i'm a veteran from the vietnam war, 1962 to 1966. probably served my con-- proudly served my country. from then until now i have been working in the community. there are many veterans came out of the vietnam war came directly to the community because regular jobs they could not hold down. and ptsd in my opinion, i'm being treated for ptsd. it has to be part of the orientation in the army, in combat troops even before they are deployed because you will get ptsd in combat because it's trauma. and trauma is happening when you are deployed. it's not like a big, big question. there's no question about it. you are going to be traumatized. start it at orientation, through deployment, through combat, and back as one seamless task. instead of you have to come and figure out five years later when you don't have no wife, no kids, you destroyed your job, that there might be something wrong. see what i'm trying to say? half the stuff in the beginning, middle, and bring the troops ready to go into treatment. not after. there's that whole big gap a

. >> richard nixon would have been president then, in the middle of the vietnam war. this is how he ends the book. how does that fit with what has happened since 1971? >> saul had real inklings about what was about to happen to the american middle class. those words are informed by that. of course, he thought that the vietnam war was having a terrible effect on american society. he did oppose the war. in fact, the night of the great police riot in chicago at the 1968 convention, he was down there in front of the hotel with the woman who he subsequently married, to show support for the anti-war people. but saul was what i would call an opto-pessimist. he never stopped dreaming and believing in hoping, but he never kidded himself about the way things work. >> you were around him fror ten years. describe him. >> he was a neat dresser. never informal. he defies all the stereotypes of what a rabble rouser is supposed to be. he was not a terribly good public speaker. that was not one of his strong points. obviously he could speak in public, and did endlessly, but he was not

. >> served in the vietnam war. i taught in the same district pat tillman was a student in high school. like so many people, i'm disturbed by the government's cover-up of this story. >> reporter: david says tillman's story resonates with his family. >> my oldest brother was killed in the vietnam war. moo i family was lied to about how he died. it took me 38 years to find out. >> reporter: he says his brother died in an ambush. while he made the ultimate sacrifice, like pat tillman, that is not what made him a hero. >> my brother is a hero because of the person he was. same as pat. he is a hero because of the person he was and son he was to his parents, brother to his brothers. husband he was to his wife. that's what makes a hero. >> reporter: film goers say the documentary showed the tillman's family quest for truth against daunting odds. >> his mother did an amaze jock. she did as much as she could. hopefully, the film will let people know what went on. >> this is a powerful story. a very important one that people

bill: first since the vietnam war, to receive such an honor.a: and he, like -- you know, like other heros, he says i didn't do anything anybody else would have done and the sergeant said it was absolutely extraordinary and the family whose son's body was able to be brought home because of the heroic moves of that man, thoughts, prayers go out to all of them and congratulations to them. bill: we honor both of them, today. thank you, jennifer. martha: coming up on "happening now", sarah palin will weigh in on the two -- excuse me -- on the two huge tea party victories, that happened last night and she will be with us in minutes, on fox news channel, coming up on "happening now." bill: oh, yeah. martha: when worlds collide, you might say, what do harry reid and lady gaga have in common? what do you think they have in common? ♪ jaguar platinum coverage is not just a warranty. it's aelief in everything we do. it's a 5 year, 50,000 mile promise. with complimentary scheduled maintenance no-cost replacement of wear and tear items and 24/7 roadside assi

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caller: the lessons of the vietnam war, as it applies to today's wars, seems to me that vietnam was fairly contrived, the gulf of tonkin incident, we entered the war under false pretenses. it seems to me that iraq is the same thing, or similar, has lots of parallels, and even afghanistan, the fact that the government is to corrupt, and it's supposed to be ourally. it seems to me that our leaders have not learned, really reviewed or learned the lessons ofhe disaster of vietnam. guest: i agree with you about afghanistan. i'm afraid that a-- one of the points i wasrying to make was the arguments for being in vietnam seemed very good at the time, very compelling. well, so did the arguments for being in afghanistan today. what's going to happen to the women of afghanistan if we pull out, and that's a horrible thought. well, you knowhat happened in vietnam when we pulled out, the antiwar people never want to admit that a million south vietnamese fled in boats because they didn't want to live under the north communists. there will be a real cost to giving up in afghanistan. i do not see how we ca

caller: the lessons of the vietnam war, as it applies to today's wars, seems to me that vietnam was fairlyrived, the gulf of tonkin incident, we entered the war under false pretenses. it seems to me that iraq is the same thing, or similar, has lots of parallels, and even afghanistan, the fact that the government is to corrupt, and it's supposed to be ourally. it seems to me that our leaders have not learned, really reviewed or learned the lessons of the disaster of vietnam. guest: i agree with you about afghanistan. i'm afraid that as -- one of the points i was trying to make was the arguments for being in vietnam seemed very good at the time, very compelling. well, so did the arguments for being in afghanistan today. what's going to happen to the women of afghanistan if we pull out, and that's a horrible thought. well, you know what happened in vietnam when we pulled out, the antiwar people never want to admit that a million south vietnamese fled in boats because they didn't want to live under the north communists. there will be a real cost to giving up in afghanistan. i do not see how we

s to divide the u. >>> the vietnam war ended 35 years ago. but one painful issue continues to divide the u.s. and vietnam. agent orange. the red cross says about three million vietnamese have suffered health problems from the toxic defoliant sprayed by u.s. troops. cbs 5's thuy vu recently returned from a trip to vietnam response toward by the renaissance journalism center and tonight, she shows us how the damage is now affecting a third generation. >>> reporter: vietnam is full of energy in the big city. [ beep beep ] >> reporter: and lush tranquility in the countryside. but in the 1960s and site of 70s, chaos and war reigned. guns on the ground and the potent weapon in the air, agent orange, an herbicide sprayed by u.s. forces to destroy the jungle hideouts of enemy communist forces. the sprayings went on for nine years. american soldiers came home suffering the effects of agent orange, and it also left lasting scars. >> my mother tell me when she was farming in the farm she [ indiscernible ] chemical -- >> reporter: 23-year-old juan tran b

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is he scheduled to be the first living soldier to earn the medal of honor since the vietnam war.military convoy heading north from texas to oklahoma. u.s. officials relocating tons of heavy armored equipment from wars past and present. some of the cargo dates back to world war i. it's all part of a museum that officials say is key to educating our troops and helping boost their morale. alicia acuna has the story live tonight from fort bliss in texas. hello alicia. >> hi, shep. this is a major undertaking by the u.s. army moving an entire museum 800 miles from fort bliss, texas to fort sill, oklahoma. we have been here all day watching this. this is part of a scud behind me here it involves some major logistics that you really have to see to believe. [beeping] >> at 60 tons this antiaircraft tank needs two cranes to make it on to a flatbed truck. otherwise the cold ware relic would topple. >> it's just a very delicate operation. >> delicate because some of the 30 tanks gunners, and other weaponry being transferred to a new museum being built at fort fill, oklahoma are the only art

president obama today paid tribute to an act of bravery carried out more than 4 decades ago during the vietnam war he post hue mousily awarded it he died in 1968 at a secret facility in laos he was killed by enemy fire. his three sons attended the white house ceremony. >> that is tonight's report i am, gasia mikaelian.

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have a theory, i want you to tell me about it, back in the area 60s the democrats were mad at the vietnam warpresident johnson because he is a democrat and made him very frustrated. so the time dick nixon got into office, they say now it's my chance to explode about how much we hate bitter and so by the time that nixon got into office, time to explode of how much i hate the vietnam war. under the republicans under george w. bush the guy didn't veto a single spending bill. the republicans felt like they'd blown their record, his fiscal responsibility people, so now they're taking it out on obama. it's a delayed response of anger. that's my neary. >> i don't agree. you got a theory. newt has a theory here. i are a theory too. i think in '74 people were upset with the watergate thing and they threw nixon out and they threw republicans out p that's why they were upset. and i think in '94, there had been a huge -- under the clinton administration, been a tax increase. they'd been a tax -- >> who got their taxes increased in '93, '94? >> senior citizens on medicare. >> oh on medicare. >> big time.

it was the first time i knew of anything of his heroic deeds. >> reporter: during the vietnam war, thes. it was a neutral country. so etchberger and others shed their uniforms and posed as civilians to run a super-secret radar installation on a laotian mountaintop. in 1967 and '68, lima guided bombing of vietnam. in march of '68, north vietnamese soldiers scaled the tall cliff and attacked. the technicians were attacked. etchberger picked up an m-16. >> it's foggy. weapons are going off all around him. he's got these comrades next to him, two of whom are shot and killed and fall off the cliff in front of him, and yet he continues to defend his men, his people. >> reporter: one of them was stanley sliz. >> i got hit in both legs and everybody was screaming and hollering. but they weren't able to get close, because of etch, firing at them. >> reporter: john daniels still has the shrapnel wounds he fwgo that day. >> he was the only one that did not get injured in this firefight. they kept throwing grenades and shooting, and we would pick up hand grenades and throw them back at him or thro

an important role in the history of the island all through ther-ea of world war ii, korean war, vietnam war. it was a very central focus of community for the military personnel who are certainly a part of the history of treasure island and san francisco. and i really find its omission inexplicable in my mind. i just want it noted. the navy assessment cannot be relied on as satisfactory for our local approval process. we have our own standards. and they should be applied to the pre--1947 buildings as well as the post-1947 buildings. perhaps that can help solve at least part of the problem that i referred to earlier. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner sugaya. >> i guess the main issue i look at treasure island frankly is the transportation issue. taking a step back i think many people need to understand this is an environmental document. and the role of the ceqa is looking at alternatives and impacts and mitigation. if you just look at the transportation area, which i think is the number one issue with treasure island, there's 141 pages of section 4-e of the review, this section and compar

. >>> this is the first since the vietnam war, a living soldier set to receive the medal of honor, 25-year-old staff sergeant salvador ginta. on february 25th he rushed to save one soldier and pulled another one away under heavy fire in one of afghanistan's most dangerous provinces. >> he walked into an l-shaped ambush. you could see the muzzle flashes from bullets leaving the enemy's guns that weren't too far away. everyone was at risk. sometimes they whistle. sometimes they crack. if you're close you just got hit but you're not hurt close. then there's the close where it snaps by your head but you're not hit. then there's the whiz. that's a little further away than the crack. >> one of the soldiers he rescued from the taliban later died from his wounds. the man was staff sergeant ginta's best friend. despite the award a he said he does not feel like a hero. >>> coming up next we've seen the incredible video of the explosion out in california. now we're getting a closer look at the destruction left behind. >>> plus if you're flying out of reagan national this weekend, good reason you

. >> a vietnam war on his hands. >> nixon, our election was disappointing and he took that big move.ohn connolly was lyndon johnson's man that had taken texas away from him. that is a big, big -- >> how long did connolly serve? >> two years until he became the chairman -- >> this isn't even two years. >> he served for two years and became chairman for democrats for nixon. >> it's not unusual at the mid way point to have a changing of the top personalities. what is a little unusual here is that they are announcing it before the midterm so that the exit after the midterms won't look tied to the disaster if a disaster unfolds. nobody is going to miss larry summers. he was a part of the culture that created the crisis that we had and i don't think that he ever had much credibility, certainly with the left of the party and with ordinary people and the prescriptions that he put in place basically rescued wall street and the banks, but didn't do much for average folk. >> is that the culture you are talking about? >> and timmothy geithner who remains the thin read that we are all leaning on,

an aircraft carrier to vietnam, the first political contact between the two countries since the vietnam war. it deployed an unmanned surveillance aircraft in guam. the high-tech drone can cover the whole china sea. >> americans realize that to have an enduring strategy for a peaceful and prosperous asia, you you need to have a strong relationship with asean. and that does have to do with china. >> china is boosting its military presence in the east asian seas. both the united states and asean are keen to contain any possible threat as for the fight over the senkaku islands, the focus of public attention has now shifted to what the japanese government will do next. >>> foreign minister, seiji maehara has urged naoto kan to insure the safety of four japanese nationals detained in the country. the minister summoned the chinese ambassador on monday. he requested that japanese diplomats be allowed to continue to see the detainees. seiji maehara also asked for meetings with the four and attorneys. chen reportedly said he would convey the request to the chinese government. the four are employees o

under his direct direction he has collated the war in vietnam dumping more bombs than during all of world war two the number of civilian deaths were in the millions and twenty thousand u.s. soldiers also lost their lives all while kissinger prolonged war even with grave doubts about its chance for success they extend the war prop it up even though it's unpopular and maybe if congress keeps pumping money into their efforts the us was bound which sounds a little bit like those wars that we're waging right now for the past nine years prop up an unpopular war continue asking for money from congress and extend the u.s. involvement in the country without officially ever declaring war and at the same time maintain a massive us us military presence after that war's over so do you think that's why holbrooke might be in attendance too to shed light on the similarities between the vietnam war and our current efforts in afghanistan oh to be a fly on the wall at the conference i don't know any better i'm sure the whole work is going to pretend like he's not repeating the exact same mistakes that kissi

he'll be the first living recipient since the vietnam war. honor for the first time a short time ago. >> as far as emotions after finding out about -- that i'm going to receive the medal of honor, it's very -- it's bittersweet because it's such a huge, huge honor. and right now the 173rd is deployed and they're doing the same thing they did, everything that's asked for them in afghanistan all over again. that's where a lot of my friends are right now. so for me to fully accept this, i have to have everyone who has been by me every time i needed them. and that's really my brothers in arms. and some of them are out of the army now and some of them are in afghanistan now. it's emotional and it's great. all of this is great. but it does break back then a lot of memories of all the people that i would love to share this moment with. and i'm just not going to have that opportunity because they're no longer with us. and they gave everything for their country. and in doing that, we're not going to be able to enjoy this together. >> giunta was a speci

. >>> a vietnam war veteran has been awarded the highest honor posthumously. president obama presented the medal in a white house ceremony, saying it's never too late to do the right thing. etchberger was a radar technician that died in loose. >>> and now, for this morning's weather from around the nation. hail and gusty winds in omaha, sioux falls and des moines. flash flooding in the dakotas and minnesota. heavy downpours in the four corners of the southwest. and showers and thunderstorms across texas. >> highs in the 90s from dallas to miami. 74 in chicago. 86 in kansas city. and 67 in minneapolis. just 60 in billings. 70 in portland. and 80 in colorado springs. phoenix still warm at 91. >>> your money news is next, including desperate times for one, major brewery, now giving beer away for free. >> sounds like a good plan. >>> plus, america's war on bedbugs. the best and newest ways to keep the critters away from you. >>> the federal reserve is growing more concerned about the pace of the nation's recovery. the fed on tuesday did signal it is ready to act,

but now for the first time since the vietnam war, a living american soldier has been awarded the medal martha raddatz has an exclusive interview with the true american hero, satisfy sergeant salvatore giunta. >> you've got eyes on him -- [ gunfire ] >> reporter: they were the tip of the spear, fighting insurgents head to head in a place called the korengal valley, just over the border from pakistan. >> giving him some down low, you're doing good. >> reporter: nearly every day, they faced heavy fire. >> to the left of it! >> reporter: and on this day in october 2007, these soldiers were heading into a village where they suspected taliban weapons were being hidden. >> the lumber yard is where we believe there's a lot of the caches. >> reporter: the men had gone over the planum russ ti numerou. they weren't looking forward to carrying it out. >> i think there's definitely a high probability somebody will get hurt. >> reporter: the operation came to be known as "rock avalanche." then 22-year-old specialist salvatore giunta would face the greatest test of his life. >> we are the tip of the

theory, and i want you to tell me about it, back in the area 60s the democrats were mad at the vietnam warnd they had to back president johnson because he is a democrat and made him very frustrated. and even bitter. so the time dick nixon got into office, they say now it's my chance to explode about how much we hate the vietnam war. take the issue of spending in the same regard. the same with spending. under bush, he didn't veto a single spending bill. republicans felt like they'd blown their record as fiscally responsible people. now they're taking it out on obama. it's a delayed response of anger. that's my theory. >> i think in '74, people were upset about watergate and threw nixon out and republicans out. that's why they were upset. and in '94, there had been under the clinton administration, a tax increase and a tax on social security increase. >> who got their taxes increased? >> senior citizens on medicare. >> you guys are unbelievable. if there's a tax increase, it affects everybody. why are republicans all of a sudden into fiscal responsibility again when they weren't under bush?

player in all of this biological warfare famously monsanto involving the agent orange during the vietnam war they're also involved in the bovine hormone drugs they're involved in of course genetically modified seeds terminator stay south of them are about monsanto and i guess also us and gentle those the two big players in the space right now might center was able to get away with things that they're doing right now basically because they have people who work for months and all that are in the government. is high up as clarence thomas who use you know months in a lawyer he is narrow groups chief justice or justice a misprint court well the recombinant who are in growth hormone michael two are pushed through congress it is now just been appointed by dart or president obama. chief of food safety. of course are. going to not want g.m.o. foods or. start we're doing. better man or what we're actually eating there i don't think many people realize the earlier ship it change unethically modified food an intellectual property and patent laws as we see these laws apply toward creating oligarch please

. >> i served in the vietnam war. i taught in the same district that pat tillman went to high school. like so many, i'm very disturbed by the government's cover-up of the story. >> you can see the tillman story at theaters in san francisco, berkeley and campbell. >>> the city of santa cruz is getting proactive when it come to keeping its city safe. city officials are hiring private security because there is not enough police officers to patrol the streets. nbc bay area is live there right now. are they on the job tonight or will they start tomorrow? >> reporter: not yes. it will be a really busy weekend as you can imagine in downtown santa cruz. when you are out and about, you'll see something you probably haven't seen before. a private security officer walking around and helping the police. nighttime in santa cruz. seven officers and their sergeant crews around keeping the peace. but during the day, santa cruz police say they're a little short staffed and have turned to a private security company for help. >> the com

sergeant salvatore junta is the first living person to be awarded the metal of honor since the vietnam war. but today, he told reporters he's just an average soldier. three years ago while wounded and under enemy fire in afghanistan he pulled a fellow soldier to safety and rescued a skd who had been carried away by insurgents, though that soldier later died. with his wife at his side, giunta said the award is bittersweet. >> well, all of this is great but it does bring back then, you know, a lot of memories of all the people that i would love to share with moment with and i'm just not going to have that opportunity because they're no longer with us. and they gave everything for their country. >> couric: the medal of honor is the nation's highest military honor, awarded for conduct above and beyond the call of duty. and still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," a connecticut doctor tells a jury how his wife and two daughters were murdered in a horrific home invasion. and later, one of the most popular hobbies in america-- strictly for the birds and those who watch them. (announcer) no mat

military award, the medal of honor, will be giving to a living serviceman for the first time since the vietnam warordinary act of heroism in a region of afghanistan known as the valley of death. tonight in his first interview, he tells martha raddatz what happens the day his world stood still. >> reporter: staff sergeant salvatore giunta was waiting at his army post in italy with his wife, jennifer, when the call come from washington. >> my heart started racing pretty fast at that time, and then when he said "president barack obama," it was really pounding. >> reporter: the honor of this award is mixed with the reality that the day of the battle was the saddest day of sergeant giunta's life. how often do you remember that time, that day? >> i think about it multiple times a day. i think about it every day. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: he was just 22 years old at the time, during this battle, which abc news cameras captured. it was a fight so intense, an ambush so sudden, that soldiers were lying wounded within seconds. among them, giunta's closest friend, sergeant josh brennan -- shot multiple times a

for that matter, the first living recipient since the vietnam war. there are 87 living recipients. all others recently have been awarded posthumously for heroic actions that took their lives. that's the case with two other recipients of the medal of honor the white house has announced in recent days. >>> and now as we promised, a word about why we are here in this massive studio sound stage tonight where we will be hosting a live special across all the broadcast networks at once, for that matter, across 17 networks in all. it's all called "stand up to cancer." it's a night to come together against this disease. so those of us who compete each night in the network evening news business are also coming together this one night. my friends katie couric and diane sawyer are both here doing their network evening newscasts. the three of us are coming to host together along with a slew of stars. it is tonight here on nbc at 8:00 eastern and pacific, 7:00 central time. we'd love for you to tune in for it. it's a cause near and dear to us all. >>> when "nightly news" continues in just a mome

after the vietnam war, a lot of people found a point of entry in the tenderloin. and so there's an extremely vibrant southeast community in the tenderloin. it was great to get to know more people down here and realize that there were so many artists and musicians and really creative people live in this area and that there are families. i like the semi-industrial character and because it's convenient and also i dj around here and i like the clubs and bars and that sort of thing. we hope that all three areas complement each other and that mid-market is not the dividing line between north and south. jennifer low: welcome back to district sf on sfgtv. this month we're at the asian art museum in the center of san francisco and the center of district 6. it's a wide area in the city, one that many people just drive through, with locked doors. but when we go inside mid-market, the tenderloin, and south of market, you'll see the reality is different from the reputation. we met district 6's supervisor, chris daly, while he was visiting residents of an sro hotel now managed