http://blog.vva.org Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to “Arts of War,” Vietnam Veterans of America’s up-to-the-minute update of information you can use about the arts—movies, television, stage plays, musicals, music, dance, popular and fine arts, and more—that deal with Vietnam veterans and the Vietnam War. You can find in-depth information on these subjects in the “Arts of ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=43 PublishingWorks, a New Hampshire book publisher, is looking for submissions from veterans for a book tentatively titled Moments of Honor, which will be published next Veterans Day. The proposed book will contain 20-30 personal reminiscences, letters, and e-mails from veterans depicting experiences during conflicts from World War II to today. The ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=348 The Springs Art Gallery, a veteran-friendly space in El Dorado Spring, Missouri, is running an exhibit that commemorates military service and highlights the issue of PTSD. It's called "I am Vietnam," and is made up of work created through art therapy by Jon York, a former Marine who did a ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=347 The new big Hollywood film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, has a minor Vietnam War theme.  The movie spin out a based-on-a-true (if extremely odd) story of military intelligence gone two steps over the line. Said theme plays out in the person of Vietnam veteran Bill Django, played by ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=346 U.S. Army Major Greg Schrein, who is stationed at Fort Leavenworth and is working on his MA in Military History at the Command and General Staff College, has chosen the early advisory efforts in Vietnam (1955-62) as the focus of his thesis.  "I am specifically examining if experiences of advisers ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=345 You heard it here first: In mid-January Worthington Games will release a "card-driven area movement game" called Hearts and Minds. It will allow, as Worthington says, "players to recreate the Vietnam War between 1965-1975 in the full campaign game or yearly scenarios starting and ending in any year." Designed by ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=344 One of the highlights of Vietnam Veterans of America's last National Leadership Conference, in July 2008 in Greenville, South Carolina, was the screening of the stirring documentary The Way We Get By presented by the filmmakers, Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet. The film, which will have its national broadcast premier on ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=343 The enlightening documentary, A Village Called Versailles, which has appeared on PBS and is being show theatrically in several cities this fall, is now available on DVD. This award-winning doc tells several stories, all of which have to do with the eastern New Orleans community of Versailles, which is home ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=342 Oliver (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, et al.) Stone is at work on his latest film, a sequel to his first post-Platoon movie, Wall Street, which came out late in 1987. That movie, in which Michael Douglas starred as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko, won critical and popular ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=341 Standing O Productions, a new theater company in Severna Park, Maryland, will be present its version of the Vietnam War play Tracers Nov. 13-22. The play, first put together by a group of Vietnam veterans in Los Angeles in 1980, is a collage of interrelated scenes that follows the lives ... http://blog.vva.org/?p=340