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This is what I call making a difference. If you are or have ever had a teacher like this, say a private or public thank you if they are still around.
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 12:36 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Most people will remember April 4, 1968 as the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. While that was a more histrionically important event, that date will always seired in my mind as the date of a battle we fought in Vietnam. I was only in country for a couple of months and the loss of comr
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 10:20 am
By: Tony Adams
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Vinfast issued an earnings report for the second quarter of 2023 on Thursday, and the news is not good for the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker.
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 1:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A heart warming story about Ann Margret and her Vietnam gentlemen.
Published: Sunday, December 24th, 2023 @ 11:25 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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While construction on its $4 billion plant is underway in Chatham County, Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast began trading on the Nasdaq Tuesday as Black Spade Acquisition Company shareholders agreed to approve the merger with VinFast Thursday.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 11:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper credited for leading an army of clean-energy companies coming to the state, is being criticized for polluting waterways near its $4 billion EV manufacturing plant in Chatham County.
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast continues to produce a mixed bag of news.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted President Biden after Biden stated in Vietnam that he didn’t “want to contain China.”
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 10:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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"I'll just follow my orders here."
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 2:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre waved off criticisms of President Joe Biden’s behavior at a Tuesday afternoon Medal of Honor ceremony recognizing Vietnam veteran Captain Larry Taylor, insisting that his abrupt exit from the event was “as planned.”
Published: Friday, September 29th, 2023 @ 11:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A Tennessean who conducted a daring helicopter rescue during the Vietnam War will be awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday, more than 50 years after his heroic actions.
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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More troubling news for VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker that wants to build a $4 billion EV production plant in Chatham County.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 10:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The nonprofit slated to receive $1.4 billion in the Senate budget plan touted the failing VinFast as a successful example to emulate
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Plans to build electric vehicles at a proposed EV production plant in Chatham County have hit another pothole. Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast announced Friday that it will push off production until 2025.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Vietnamese electric vehicle maker with plans to build a production plant in Chatham County may be in trouble after announcing it is cutting 80 jobs in the U.S., including its chief financial officer, all before delivering its first vehicle.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"So this is Christmas (War is Over)" was written in 1971 by John and Yoko Lennon, just months after the official breakup of the Beatles.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 9:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vietnam veteran Glenn Cook, 70, left behind no family when he passed away in May of this year — but on Tuesday, his community came together to give him a hero’s farewell.
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 6:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Two Chatham County communities will soon be without twenty-seven homes, five businesses, and one church because the state of North Carolina is exercising its eminent domain powers to make way for VinFast, a startup Vietnamese auto company.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am writing my most difficult book report ever at 70 years old. It is about another GI I did not know, and an enemy I never wanted to know. Yet we were all in the same place forty-eight years ago along with a bunch of others, with us trying to kill him and his comrades and him trying to kill us
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 1:03 pm
By: Tony Adams
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Since 1868, a day has been set aside to remember all those who died in American wars. Monday, May 30, 2022 is this year's date. My memory of Memorial Day is largely around celebrating the beginning of Summer, parties with hot dogs and watermelon, pools opening.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 2:02 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Golden LEAF Board of Directors awards $50 million to support North Carolina’s first car manufacturerRecently, Governor Roy Cooper announced that North Carolina has landed its first car manufacturer, VinFast, a Vietnamese electric car manufacturer.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 6:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A Vietnamese automaker has announced plans to build a $4 billion electric-vehicle assembly and battery-manufacturing plant at Triangle Innovation Point in Moncure, about 30 miles west of the Triangle.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 5:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ashworth’s Clothing in Fuquay-Varina opened in 1937. It survived through some trying times, such as World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Great Recession.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 11:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 8:26 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Ever since our 2014 vacation to Normandy and the D-Day sites, I think of Veterans Day in an entirely new light.
Published: Thursday, November 11th, 2021 @ 7:55 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Many may have heard of Desmond Doss, Here is another hero's story. I knew him.
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 1:32 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Today, our Nation mourns the loss of a true pioneer. General Charles "Chuck" Yeager served in the Army Air Corps and the United States Air Force for more than 30 years, piloting countless aerial victories in World War II and commanding Airmen during the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 2:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a Dustoff Pilot, I would fly out for pick-ups in the field. Each day I would see the conditions that the ground troops had to endure and I would draw comparisons to my own situation.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 8:07 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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As a high school and college student during most of the Vietnam War, I was consumed by the drill team, dating, and studying-not the nightly news.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2020 @ 5:47 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Just two bad days in a long year
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2020 @ 9:00 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The author of this op-ed cites some clear examples that are concerning — and worth knowing
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 1:06 pm
By: LifeZette
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The N.C. Court of Appeals determined the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office violated a Vietnam veteran’s due process rights by denying his application for a concealed handgun permit.
Published: Saturday, October 19th, 2019 @ 12:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, the President signed into law H.R. 299, the “Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019"
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 9:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm a Billy Joel fan, and I saw him long ago with Elton John at the Omni in Atlanta. I got reacquainted with his music when I listened to the Billy Joel station on SiriusXM on a January trip to the mountains-both up and back.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 @ 4:48 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement on the U.S. - North Korea Summit in Vietnam-NC) issued the following statement on the U.S. - North Korea Summit in Vietnam
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 @ 9:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I want to begin by thanking the Prime Minister and President of Vietnam. We're in Hanoi. It's an incredible city.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 @ 8:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump at a Social Dinner with Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 3:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 2:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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