Tomorrow Town, Tennessee

We are starting a brand new series about the Battle for Hue in the war in Vietnam called The Battle That Changed Everything . In this episode we introduce you to some of the Marines you'll get to know through this journey, and we take you through the beginning hours of this historic battle. This series is part of our podcast, Tomorrow Town, Tennessee . SHOW NOTES: You can find a list of the books...

In two weeks we will begin a special series we've been working on all year. The series is titled, The Battle That Changed Everything. The series is six main episodes looking at the Battle for Hue in the Vietnam War. We will also have lots of bonus content including extended interviews and more. The first episode will be released on July 31. In this preview episode I travel to Tuscaloosa, Alabama t...

Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay Rodman has had a fascinating career. She has degrees from Duke and Harvard. She was a White House Fellow. She served as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She deployed to Afghanistan and has had many other interesting stops and experiences along the way including being a USMC Ambassador for the Marine Corps' 250th Birthday. On...

Cleveland Tennessee's Alvin Jackson fought in war in Vietnam. We told his story the first time in 2020, and we've told more of that story in the years since. Friends, loved ones, and non-profits learned that Alvin and his wife Zandra's home was in bad shape and over the last few years they built them a new one. The Jackson family finally got the keys to that home in the summer of 2023, but just a...

In late 1965, Marine Corps Major Donald J. Reilly was the most decorated Marine in the war in Vietnam. Major Reilly flew rescue missions in a Huey Helicopter. On December 9th of that year Donald Reilly flew his final mission. He killed and action and buried near his family in Memphis, Tennessee, but as the years and people's lives moved forward no one else was buried in that cemetery along side Ma...

There are many ways to learn about history. One of the best ways is to listen to the people who lived it. On this episode we listen to Marine Corps Veteran Captain Ray Lewis. Captain Lewis joined the Marines in 1966. He flew missions as a pilot of A-4E Skyhawk in 1970 in the War in Vietnam. Tomorrow Town, Tennessee is a production of NewsChannel 9, Fox Chattanooga and Sinclair Broadcast Group Chat...

On this episode, a conversation with Marine combat veteran, co-founder of the apparel company Grunt Style and another of those outstanding ambassadors for the Marine Corps' 250th birthday, Tim Jensen. The Marines will celebrate 250 years on November 10, 2025. Tomorrow Town, Tennessee is a production of NewsChannel 9, Fox Chattanooga, and Sinclair Broadcast Group Chattanooga. See Privacy Policy at...

On this episode Josh Roe talks to retired Marine Corps Major Chuck Casey. If you have listened our past episodes I've posted about our trip to Vietnam in the fall of last year you may remember Major Casey. He was one of the organizers of that trip and I'll share a couple of personal observations and he has worked for years to bring Vietnam Veterans back to the battlefields of that war. In this epi...

On this episode a conversation with Marine Corps Veteran E.J. Goodroe. E.J. is the Director of the Office of Military and Veteran Services at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and he is also ... a Marine Corps Ambassador for the 250th birthday. The Marines will turn 2 hundred and 50 years old November 10, 2025. Tomorrow Town, Tennessee is a production of NewsChannel 9, Fox Chattanooga, and S...

The Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center will soon unveil a new exhibit that tells the legendary story of Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam War Cobra Helicopter Pilot Larry Taylor. Back in October 2018, I sat down with Captain Taylor as he told me the incredible story of the night he rescued 4 soldiers on June 18, 1968. This conversation happened 50 years after that combat a...

An incredible story one Vietnam War fighter pilot told Josh Roe about his role in a dangerous mission in the skies over North Vietnam. Kit Smith's was a fighter pilot in the war and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his role in the first bombing mission over Hanoi. Tomorrow Town, Tennessee is a production of NewsChannel 9, Fox Chattanooga, and Sinclair Broadcast Group Chattanooga. See...

Riley Tejcek has accomplished a lot in a short period of time. The 28 year old is a captain in the Marine Corps and an ambassador for the Marine Corps’ 250th Birthday. She's a former collegiate softball player at George Washington, and right now as this podcast is being released she is competing to make the Team USA Olympic Bobsled Team. If she gets to the games she would be the first female Marin...

2025 is a big year for the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Corps will celebrate its 250th birthday on November 10, 2025. On this episode of Tomorrow Town, Tennessee I talk to Ed Cutshall. He is a Marine Corps veteran, a Tennessee native, and currently Ed is the Director of the Marine Corps' Business and Support Services Division and CEO of Marine Corps Community Services. Tomorrow Town, Ten...

On this episode, a conversation with World War II pilot Major John "Lucky" Luckadoo. Major Luckadoo flew with the 8th Air Force's 100th Bomb Group also known as the Bloody Hundredth. The TV Show Masters of the Air tells the story of pilots who flew with the Bloody Hundredth over Europe leading up to the D-Day invasion at Normandy. Tomorrow Town, Tennessee is a production of NewsChannel 9, Fox Chat...

The Battle of Hue City during the American war in Vietnam started at the very beginning of the Tet Offensive on January 31st 1968. That is 57 years ago this week. On this episode a conversation with a man who was there, Nick Warr. He wrote an outstanding book on what he witnessed in the battle called Phase Line Green. I traveled to Vietnam in September and Nick Warr was on that trip.  We visi...

The Battle of Missionary Ridge & Chattanooga National Cemetery with General B.B. Bell See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Recently, I had the honor of listening to Vietnam Veteran Dave Hill tell his story of what happened the night Medal of Honor Recipient Larry Taylor rescued Hill and 3 others during the war in Vietnam. Mr. Hill also told the story of the work he, along with several others, did to help get Taylor the Medal of Honor. Today on the show Dave Hill tells his story in his own words. See Privacy Policy at...

In the fall of 2025 Chattanooga and the Coolidge National Medal Of Honor Heritage Center will host the annual Medal Of Honor Convention. All Living Medal of Honor recipients will be invited to town with dozens in attendance. Recently there was a kick off event with guest speaker Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter. On this episode, Kyle Carpenter's remarks from the official announcement of the...

Doyle Cox was with the first American troops into Korea in the summer of 1950. You can watch our video story about Mr. Cox here: https://youtu.be/G2AumQGS-Qc He was a member of what's known as Task Force Smith. Those were the Americans who fought in the Battle of Osan, the first American engagement in the war in Korea. Doyle Cox was awarded 5 Bronze Stars in the war. 3 of them had the V attachment...

Earlier this month the United States Army's First Infantry Division named a road after Chattanooga native Medal and of Honor recipient Captain Larry Taylor on the base at Fort Riley in Kansas. This is the latest of many honors for Larry Taylor. Several of them have come after he passed in late January of this year. Recently, I had a conversation with Dave Hill. Dave and Larry Taylor were friends f...

On Veterans Day we put together a special report, as we followed the family of Medal of Honor Recipient Rodney Maxwell Davis as they visited the exact spot Sgt. Davis was killed in Action. You can watch the full special here: https://youtu.be/_jNikM8FsaY During what's know as Operation Swift during the Vietnam War, Davis sacrificed his life and saved 5 fellow Marines. The story is incredible and e...

David Kinzler is the CEO at One to One Health in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before he started that chapter of his life, David had a fascinating journey from the Naval Academy, a Marine Corps Officer who fought in Afghanistan and a few years on Capitol Hill. This is part 2 of our conversation. In this episode David talks about being the CEO of One to One Health in Chattanooga, TN and he tells the stor...

Will parts of the Air National Guard be moved away from the direction of governors and under the leadership of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Space Force? That proposal is closer to becoming reality than many may realize. On this episode we talk to someone who knows exactly where this proposal stands right now, and what would need to happen for this to become law. We talk about this and mo...

David Kinzler is the CEO at One to One Health in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before he started that chapter of his life, David had a fascinating journey from the Naval Academy, a Marine Corps Officer who fought in Afghanistan and a few years on Capitol Hill. This is part one of a two part conversation with David Kinzler. Part two is coming soon. This podcast is a production of NewsChannel 9, Fox Chatt...

Host Josh Roe just returned from a trip to Da Nang, Vietnam where he witnessed several incredible events. One of those events was a meeting that included veterans in Vietnam who fought against U.S. forces in the 1960s & 70s and a delegation of Americans that included veterans from the war in Vietnam, U.S. Veterans who served after the war, current service members, and family members of Medal o...