by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 18, 2025 | Author, Blog, Books, Days of Peace and War, Vietnam
Black & White Pencil Sketch of Me Sparks Memories Above my desk is a black and white sketch of me in pencil, drawn in Saigon in May or June, 1970. I wear my bush hat, my uniform, my combat infantry badge, my rank E-4, and my active unit’s badge on my left...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2024 | Author, Blog, Books, Days of Peace and War, Vietnam
ABOUT THE AUTHORÂ George W. McDaniel, PhD, is the President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and to its broader constituents. For 25 years, he served as the Executive Director of...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | May 26, 2023 | Blog, Books, Days of Peace and War, Vietnam
Memorial Day: Vietnam. A tribute to Capt. Harvey Kelley, the commanding officer of my company in Vietnam, whom the Viet Cong ambushed and killed on November 20, 1969. He was a good guy. A career soldier and maybe 30 years old, he may have been a Green Beret, I...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 23, 2018 | Blog, Vietnam
This holiday season the wars in Syria and Afghanistan are much in the news, yet to us at home, war seems a long way off. In many ways it is, yet for veterans, its memories still live close by. This Christmas Eve is a case in point. Forty nine years ago, I was...
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents. 