Vietnam, Full Circle: A Combat Veteran Returns

Dockery, Martin J.: - Martin Dockery was a First Lieutenant, United States Army, from 1960-1964, serving as a combat advisor to a Vietnamese infantry battalion for nearly a year in 1963. Shortly thereafter, he participated in the funeral of JFK, supervising visiting Irish cadets. After leaving the army, he practiced municipal bond law as a partner at various law firms in New York City. He returned to Vietnam in 2002 as a teacher at a charity for blind orphans, street children, public school children, university students, seminarians, monks, nuns and foreign NGOs. Ten years later, he moved back to New York with his wife Thao and their two children.