Welcome to the American History Podcast, episode 8, bonus episode.

Welcome to the American History Podcast.

Hosted by Sean Worswick.

Thank you. by Sean Worswick. All right. Hello and welcome to the American History podcast. This is episode eight, bonus episode, The Vietnam War.

Now first, let me apologize for having been gone for about two months. If you were a regular listener at this time, it is 2017.

You know, I've not released an episode since early October.

There are two major reasons for my absence.

First, if you've been listening, I'm a teacher, and I change schools.

Indeed, I moved to an entirely different school district.

Now, this change was a long time in coming. I'd been unhappy with how things were going at the previous school for at least a year. And while a year isn't all

that long, the amount of change and things that were going on, it was just too much. So I felt like

it was time to get out. And lucky for me, I've got friends in other districts all over the city,

and a couple of them really helped me out. Now lucky for me, I've got friends in other districts all over the city, and a

couple of them really helped me out. The second reason that I've been gone for two months,

if you know me well, you know that my oldest dog, Chuck, passed away in early November.

After a short, 10-day illness, he was 13 and a half half and he was the light of our lives. Um,

I'd planned on recording an episode on October 31st and releasing it the next day, but

that was when Chuck was ill and so I was unable to do so. He then passed away on November 7th,

and I was a mess. So recording was just not on one of the things that I was even considering doing at that point.

But hopefully we can get back on track and on with the show.

Now one last thing before we get started, we're going to start doing the show in seasons,

and each season is going to have a theme or a topic.

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