FROM OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS AND OTHER SOURCES
Tet 1969 at Cu Chi Combat Base, RVN
Helicopter Accident Report (excerpt): 2 Feb 1969, Moc Hoa: KIA Willard H. Burkhart
and Charles O'Steen
SITES WITH COMPREHENSIVE VIETNAM CASUALTY INFORMATION
Vietnam War Dead Database: original VietWar download site
The Coffelt Database: unit ID to company level for most records.
Vietnam, April 1994 - My journal and memory, such as they are
SELECTED VIETNAM PRESENTATIONS
SOS Art 2009. June 6, 2009 - Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Milford-Miami Township Branch, Clermont County Public Library (November 2007) Public reading.National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (July 2006) Public reading at the Freedom of Expression program.
Vietnam Slide Shows: University of Cincinnati, February 2000: Shriner's, November 2002.
Public poetry reading on Memorial Day, 1999, at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Featured poet at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Country for the opening of Vietnam Revisited, a photo exhibit by former Army photographer, Ken Williamson, November 1998.
Featured poet on Night Music, March 16, 1997 - WNKU (Public Radio from Northern Kentucky University)
Vietnam Slide Show - Counterparts Reunion - August 1995.
Poetry readings at the Poet Warriors Memorial Day Weekend Program, held at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington, D.C. May 1995.
Vietnam Slide Show - Khe Sanh Veterans Reunion - July 1994.
Poetry readings at the Memorial Day Writer’s Project, Veteran’s Day Weekend Program, held at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington, D.C. November 1994.
VIETNAM POETRY Publication Credits
For a Better World: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice, 2009. Ghosn, Saad. (ed) Cincinnati, Ohio: Reunification Express, 1994; The Other Soc Trang; Some Who Stayed.
Vietnam in black & white. 1998. Constance Lee Menefee, Cincinnati, Ohio. 62 pp. Available at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Co. Call number - 811.54: qM5412v:1998.Times Record News, Wichita Falls Online Edition, November 11, 1998; The Names
Veteran’s Day insert: Downtowner, Cincinnati Ohio, November 10, 1998: Take a Number; Last Letter
Second Front Page, feature article At War With Words, The Harrison Press, April 8, 1998: Blue-Eyed Daddy; Take a Number; Lies That Soldiers Tell; Lewis B. Puller, Jr., Age 48, Dies By His Own Hand: A Casualty of the War
AWARDS FOR POETRY ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR
FY 1998 Individual Artist’s Fellowship: $5,000 - Creative Writing, Ohio Arts Council; poetry on the Vietnam War.
Michael P. (M-60) Kelley, Vietnam veteran artist and writer (Where We Were In Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide to the Firebases, Military Installations, and Navy Vessels of the Vietnam War, Hellgate Press), wrote: “In my judgment, Connie is also without question among the very best poets to have emerged from the Vietnam experience.”
FIRST PRIZE: Everything is not Enough (1997) D.A. Levy Chapbook Award Winner 1996 Chapbook designed & published by THIS: a serial review. Cincinnati, Ohio
THIRD PRIZE: the Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL) (1996) Poetry.
Selected Poems
Or see: Vietnam (Poetry Manuscript)
In Memory, Jan H. Vanderbie, 27 May 2008
(Former US AID Province
Representative, Republic of Vietnam)
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