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 Due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, John D. Gresham and Military Monday will be on hiatus this week. However, please join military historian, author and journalist John D. Gresham for Military Monday today at 1 p.m. Eastern for a repeat of last week's outstanding show, THE LUCKY FEW described below: Spring 1975 was a painful and difficult time for the peoples of Southeast Asia and the United States. Most Americans prefer not to remember our forced evacuation from Vietnam, and the horrible imagery of the fall of Saigon. What followed was the era of darkness in the region, with mass genocide, political oppression and imprisonment, as the short term outcomes for those in the former French colonies of Indochina. However, despite these horrible realities, some incredible stories of heroism, initiative, and humanity emerged from these difficult days, and one of them centered on the men of the destroyer escort USS Kirk(DE 1087)  The Kirk was part of Task Force 77 in the South China Sea, tasked with conduct