Author: Frank Romeo

HALL OF FAME  Sydney Cole was an Olympic swimmer in the 1936 Berlin Games until suddenly the team was asked to leave, but he soon returned. Not as a swimmer but as an American Pilot during WWII. When his plane Read More …

THE MIGHTY MEKONG The mighty Mekong River flows through almost 3,000 miles of countryside servicing 65 million people with its seasonal flows. These flows, dependent on the annual Monsoons, sustain fisheries, agriculture, ecosystems as well as the culture of the Read More …

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH Advocating for PTSD/VETERANS During the month of May I will be traveling throughout NewYork State promoting the Walk With Frank initiative. This week I am in the New York State Capital Building in Albany on the Read More …

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I’ve been busy traveling around New York State promoting the Walk With Frank Initiative for PTSD. From the chamber floor in the Capital Building talking with policy makers and promoting PTSD awareness to Read More …

SEX – DRUGS – ROCK N ROLL Sex-Drugs-Rock n Roll was not just an American pastime but a way of life in Vientiane. As Bangkok boasted the first Go-Go Dancers Vientiane boasted Hippy Communes and Hippy culture as early as Read More …

VIENTIANE Unlike the Vietnam War the Secret Wars were played by a different and unusual set of rules. Due to the failure of the 1962 Geneva Accords, which declared Laos an independent and neutral state, the U.S. and Soviet Union Read More …

THE SECRET WARS As civil unrest escalates and sides are drawn the Ho Chi Minh Trail takes on a more difinitive roll. Between 1962 and 1963 the trail increases it’s southward expansion into Cambodia as North Vietnamese soldiers infiltrate South Read More …

APRIL 30, 1975 THE END STATUS: Name: Romeo, Frank Rank: E-4, Corporal Serial Number: RA 11835929 Status: Psychiatric, Inpatient Veterans Administration Medical Center Northport New York Frank Romeo…..”on April 30, 1975 I was in a psychiatric ward at the Veterans Read More …

LAOS Laos finds itself in the most unusual situation of being surrounded by almost everyone in Southeast Asia. China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma) border this small country thus leaving it strategically and culturally vital to the region. Inhabited Read More …

OPERATION FREQUENT WIND 60,000 strong in the eleventh hour of The Fall of Saigon made up of prominent politicians, military leaders, and anyone with U.S. or Saigon connections took to the South China Sea to escape the death throes of Read More …