The U.S. Army made special efforts to have the essentials of Thanksgiving, including a full turkey and a few of the hard-to-find essentials such as cranberries reach remote locations such as ours. Guest columnist

Ambassador Kenneth Quinn served for 5½ years in Vietnam during the war as a State Department Foreign Service Officer.

November marks the end of the rainy season in Vietnam. While the daily torrential downpours were finally over, the heavy cloud cover remained, making the days seem gray and overcast, not unlike the sky in Iowa at that time of the year.

But my Thanksgiving memory wasn’t of Dubuque, where I grew up, but rather in Duc Ton, a district of Sa Dec Province in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam in 1970 in the middle of the war. As a civilian Foreign Service Officer, havi

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