Following a year of tragedy is never easy, but 2021 was about renewal at Fort Hood. After a challenging 2020, the team of teams tightened their proverbial boot straps, dusted
The next several months will be bittersweet for Steve Draper, director of Fort Hood Museums, as he packs up exhibits at the 1st Cavalry Division Museum, which once served as
Our job to be there: Vietnam?
By Vivian Blevins - Contributing columnist
When Penny Adams of Piqua, Ohio, a Vietnam War U.S. Navy veteran, entered the Nauticus at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2019 to serve as a member of a panel entitled “To Bind Their Wounds,” she was first greeted by signs: 10,000-Day War at Sea followed by Why Did the U.S. Go to War in Vietnam?
She walked further to see her words and her name inscribed on a wall in answer to the question: “We were saving lives. It was our job to be there.”