From dodging bullets to getting shot down in a helicopter, a Missouri U.S. Army veteran said fighting in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War still feels surreal to him. Bill Tlapek, of southeast Missouri’s St. Genevieve, served in infantry in 1968. “Which was,...
A U.S. soldier from Missouri who served in the Vietnam War made a promise if he made it out alive – that he would honor his comrades. Alisa Nelson talks to Rae Lynn Munoz, the executive director of Missouri’s National Veterans Memorial in Perryville, about a promise...
