Virginia Morris

  • Ho Chi Minh Trail, Route 20

    Ho Chi Minh Trail, Route 20

    Route 20 in Laos is a historic part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. When I first visited in the late 1990s, it seemed as though the war had only recently ended. Villages displayed various abnormalities, such as cluster bomb casings being repurposed as vegetable plots, bomb craters turned into fishponds and houses constructed partially…

  • Staff Sergeant E5 Ed Wolcoff

    Staff Sergeant E5 Ed Wolcoff

    Ed Wolcoff was part of Studies and Observations Group (SOG), a highly classified unit conducting covert unconventional warfare missions during the Vietnam War. We met Ed and several other American Special Forces veterans because in 2006, Clive and I had been invited to their annual Special Operations Association Reunion (SOAR) held in Las Vegas. Members included…