Painted Sky Opera presents Glory Denied 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31, 2 p.m. Feb. 2 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 Freede Little Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 1 201 N. Walker Ave. paintedskyopera.org 405-594-8300 $35-$50 In 1964, Green Beret Jim Thompson’s plane was shot down in Vietnam, and he was captured by the Viet Cong. His […]
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The Oklahoma History Center exhibit Welcome Home explores the impact of the Vietnam War on Oklahomans
The exhibit is open through November 2019.
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Letters to the Editor: Nov. 23, 2017
When we make choices that run counter to His plan for us, we often suffer the consequences of the bad choices we make and the ones made by others.
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Immigration to OKC helped turn the city into a pho lovers’ paradise
Vietnamese immigrants created the city’s Asian District and citizens’ love for ph?.
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Former Vietnamese orphans reunite 41 years after finding refuge in Oklahoma
Eighteen of 23 former Vietnamese orphans brought to the U.S. in the final days of the Vietnam War were able to attend a recent reunion in Oklahoma City.
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OKC, Vietnamese communities bring war monument to Military Park
More than 40 years ago, Vinh Nguyen and his family escaped their native Vietnam by boarding a small boat headed for the South China Sea. They spent 36 hours in the ocean before encountering the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, a task force supporting the evacuation of South Vietnamese people after the fall of Saigon — […]
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Oklahoma City-born artist finds inspiration across the globe
Denise Duong makes traveling art as she perfects the art of travel.
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Letters to the Editor: Oct. 7, 2015
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com. Include a city of residence and contact number for […]
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Rolling Thunder
Now available in a Blu-ray from Shout! Factory that puts MGM’s 2011 burn-on-demand release to utter shame, the film stars William Devane (the POTUS of last summer’s The Dark Knight Rises) as Maj. Charles Rane. After spending a grueling seven years as a prisoner of war, he returns home to San Antonio, Texas, to a […]
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Remembering
Jim Ross served his country with honor while risking his life every day on a foreign battlefield and in a war that seemed senseless to many Americans. A veteran of the Vietnam War, the Arcadia resident is author of a new memoir, Outside the Wire: Riding with the ‘Triple Deuce’ in Vietnam 1970, which tells […]