Lucas Ledesma

For the past several months, I've had a project in the background that I've been working on. I've often thought about how great it would have been to have had someone with a video camera to document the stories of the men who served in the Civil War or the Revolutionary War. How much value would that be to us today? It's with that thought in mind that I've started documenting the stories of our Vietnam War veterans. The fruit of that endeavor is now taking shape in the form of a new channel on YouTube called "Vietnam: Downrange." There's nothing fancy or flashy about the channel. Just the raw, uncut conversations with the men (and hopefully women, at some point) who were there. The channel will run the gamut of the experiences. MAC-V SOG, riflemen, cooks, artillerymen, intelligence analysts, mechanics, naval gunners, pilots and the list goes on and on. My hope is that the channel will help people to form an overall picture of this long and complicated conflict. You can find the channel and subscribe to it via the url at the end of this video. The first episode will feature Medal of Honor recipient Don Ballard. To my knowledge, this will be the longest and most in depth interview that he's ever given. I hope that you'll gain as much from watching and listening to these interviews as I have in putting them together.