Rick Fredericksen
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When combat ceased across Vietnam, it signaled the start of a cold war over the Americans left behind. As family members agonized, nearly 2,500 POWs and MIAs had become human pieces in a diplomatic chess match that outlasted the war itself. U.S. prisoners of war and missing in action were never forgotten in Southeast Asia. In fact, just the opposite. They were a symbolic, last battalion of Americans, working in concert with the U.S. government, to...
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Just hours after two pilots had taken possession of a Cessna aircraft, they were flying over the Midwest on a lovely autumn morning when their small plane was targeted by F-16 fighter jets. It was September 11, 2001 and the civilians were among the last Americans to learn that our country was under attack. This is one of the little-known stories covered during a 50-year career by former military and civilian news broadcaster Rick Fredericksen. "Some...
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It took more than 107 years to publish Lusitania Diary. For most of that time the slender, red booklet was tucked away in the attic of a family home in the American Midwest. This year, the 4,000 word diary was fully translated from Danish to English, revealing an eyewitness account of a trans-Atlantic voyage on the doomed British ocean liner. Christian Fredericksen travelled with his little sister when the ship was still new. Seven years after their...