Keywords: Vietnam
Item 27525
SFC Bertrand Dyer receiving bronze star, Vietnam, 1969
Contributed by: New Portland Historical Society Date: 1969 Media: Photographic print
Item 102669
Van and Kim Luu, South Portland, 2009
Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: South Portland Media: Digital photograph
Exhibit
Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island
Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3
"In Vietnam, there was little to eat, steamed rice, vegetables, and whatever they could find for their supper."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3
"My parents used an outhouse in Vietnam. When my mother and father were young, their houses were made of wood and had a thatched roof."
Story
Protesters spit on me as a Vietnam Veteran
by Joseph Rocque Jr.
I will never forget the horror of seeing all the protestors greeting my plane returning from Vietnam
Story
Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division
Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam
