Marc Yablonka

Marc Yablonka

Marc Yablonka is a Burbank, California-based military journalist and author whose reportage has run in the U.S. military newspaper the Stars and Stripes, Army Times, Vietnam Magazine and many other publications. He is currently the senior reporter for the Hmong Daily News and a contributing writer to the Sentinel, magazine of the Southern California chapter of the Special Forces Association. He has written four books on the Vietnam War, the most recent of which are Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film, about combat correspondents and photographers who served in the US Military during that war, and Hot Mics and TV Lights: The American Forces Vietnam Network. 

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Franciscan Fr. Ed McKenzie leads a ritual during the Veterans Retreat at Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, California. In the background is Fanciscan Fr. Roger Lopez. (Jen Jauregui)

Vietnam veteran priest helps struggling fellow veterans

Franciscan Fr. Ed McKenzie still struggles with PTSD from his service in Vietnam. In retreats, he helps other veterans of all wars and of any faith come to terms with what they experienced fighting America's battles.

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