David Venditta was 15 in 1969 when his cousin, Nicholas Venditti, lost his life during the Vietnam War. Although they were cousins, as members of a large, Italian-American family growing up in ...
CLEVELAND — Minutes before 6 a.m., Army nurse Martha Green woke with a jolt to a thunderous explosion half a mile away. It was the steamy morning of June 8, 1969, and she was in her bed at Chu Lai ...