A version adapted by Barbara Vann with Music by Chris McGlumphy was produced by The Medicine Show Theater in April 2005 and received a favorable review in the 11 April 2005 edition of The New York Times.

Westmoreland repeatedly rebuffed or suppressed attempts by John Paul Vann and Lew Walt to shift to a " pacification " strategy Westmoreland had little appreciation of the patience of the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince President Lyndon B. Johnson to approve widening the war into Cambodia and Laos in order to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

However, the residents protested and the name was changed to Rogers County, after Clem Vann Rogers, a mixed-blood Cherokee rancher and father of Will Rogers.

Constructed in 1805 for James Vann, a Cherokee chief, the two-story red brick home was built alongside the Federal Road, a major early path in northwest Georgia.

Vann built a house that was a replica of the mansion in Georgia from which he had been evicted by the Federal government.

Brough was a personal friend of the Woodward family and was an early influence on prominent southern historian C. Vann Woodward.

Comer Vann Woodward ( November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999 ) was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations.

C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, a town named after his mother's family and the county seat from 1886-1903.

Commager was representative of a whole generation of like-minded historians who were widely read by the general public, including Samuel Eliot Morison, Allan Nevins, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and C. Vann Woodward.

By the 1950s Beard's economic interpretation of history was also out of favor ; only a few prominent historians held to his view of class conflict as a primary driver in American history, among them Howard K. Beale and C. Vann Woodward.

Vann Nath, who was spared because of his ability to paint, died in September 5, 2011.

John Paul Vann ( July 2, 1924 – June 9, 1972 ) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well known for his role in the Vietnam War.

Vann was born as John Paul Tripp in Norfolk, Virginia, out of wedlock, to John Spry and Myrtle Lee Tripp.

The Vann children grew up in near-poverty but through the patronage of a wealthy member of his church, Vann was able to attend boarding school at Ferrum College.

Vann joined his unit, which was placed on the critical Pusan Perimeter until the amphibious Inchon landing relieved the beleaguered forces.

In late 1950, in the wake of China's entrance into the war and the retreat of allied forces, now-Captain Vann was given his first command, a Ranger company, the Eighth Army Ranger Company.

In 1957 Vann returned to the US to attend the Command and General Staff College, a requirement for promotion to lieutenant colonel, and in 1961 Vann was promoted.

Vann was assigned to South Vietnam in 1962 as an advisor to Colonel Huỳnh Văn Cao, commander of the ARVN IV Corps.

In the thick of the anti-guerrilla war against the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, Vann became aware of the ineptitude with which the war was being prosecuted, in particular the disastrous Battle of Ap Bac.

Vann was forced from his advisor position in March 1963 and left the Army within a few months.

After an assignment as province senior adviser, Vann was made Deputy for CORDS ( Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support ) in the Third Corps Tactical Zone of Vietnam, which consisted of the twelve provinces north and west of Saigon — the part of South Vietnam most important to the US.

The lineup would change significantly over the years, but the " Big Three " – Drew Emmitt, Vince Herman and Mark Vann — remained the heart of the band until Vann's death in 2002.

Vann was highly respected by a large segment of officers and civilians who were involved in the broader political aspects of the war because he favored small unit, aggressive patrolling over grandiose, large unit engagements.

On one of his trips back to the U. S. in December 1967, Vann was asked by Walt Rostow, an advocate of more troops and Johnson administration National Security Advisor, whether the U. S. would be over the worst of the war in six months: " Oh hell no, Mr. Rostow ," replied Vann, " I'm a born optimist.

In response, Vann asked his pilot to make low passes over the trees which covered Ap Bac.

Casper asks Vann to pull over at a rest stop to get high.

The embrace occurs directly over the spot where Vann buried the high school footballer.

In a voice over monologue prior to this scene, Vann vows to stop killing whenever he gets where he is going.

Vann chases after him in a car he “ borrows ” and eventually pulls him over.

A major reform designed and pushed forward by the young chiefs ' " Cherokee Triumvirate " ( James Vann, Charles R. Hicks, and The Ridge ), its primary prescriptive feature was setting up a Light Horse Guard of several teams over the whole Nation to act as " regulating parties ", and also provided for a system of patrilineal inheritance alongside the matrilineal inheritance system of the clans.

In addition to the blacksmith shop, the property around the Vann House included 42 slave cabins, 6 barns, 5 smokehouses, a trading post, more than 1, 000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still.

Designer Vann Molyvann made use of massive earthworks to create the stadium, digging up 500, 000 cubic meters of earth to shape the grounds.

Although Vann and his family lost their home and property, he later sued for the loss and was awarded $ 19, 605 by the government as compensation ( It is worth noting that the house alone was valued at $ 10, 000, so the compensation was far from the actual property value .).

He wants “ Turk ” ( the pseudonym that Vann used when setting up the buy ) to drop $ 20, 000 dollars in a certain trash can.

** Marcus Miller, Luther Vandross and Teddy Vann for " Power of Love / Love Power " performed by Luther Vandross

He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1989 book A Bright Shining Lie, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

** Marcus Miller, Luther Vandross & Teddy Vann ( songwriters ) for " Power of Love / Love Power " performed by Luther Vandross

The Old Place () is a ruin of an Elizabethan manor house, built by Griffith Williams for his daughter and son-in-law Edmund Vann in 1596.

Vann returned to Vietnam in March 1965 as an official of the Agency for International Development ( AID ).

Vann served as Deputy for Civil Operations and Rural Development Support CORDS III ( i. e., commander of all civilian and military advisers in the Third Corps Tactical Zone ) until November 1968 when he was assigned to the same position in IV Corps, which consisted of the provinces south of Saigon in the Mekong Delta.

On June 18, President Richard Nixon posthumously awarded Vann the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian citation, for his ten years of service as a top American in South Vietnam.

For his actions from April 23 – 24, 1972, Vann, ineligible for the Medal of Honor as a civilian, was also awarded ( posthumously ) the Distinguished Service Cross, the only civilian so honored in Vietnam.

* Woodward, C. Vann ( 1989 ) The Battle for Leyte Gulf ( Naval Series ) Battery Press ISBN 0-89839-134-2

" " This old woman, named Chiconehla, is supposed to have been in a war against an enemy nation and was wounded numerous times ... Her left arm is decorated with some designs, which she said were fashionable during her youth ...." Chiconehla stayed for two days, entertained by the students and discussing theology with the missionaries with the aid of translating by her distant relative, Mrs. James Vann ( Margaret Scott ).

In his final effort to defeat the Viet Cong, Vann flew into Tan Hiep and asked Cao to deploy an airborne battalion on the eastern side of Ap Bac, the most logical retreat route for the Viet Cong.

Vann, who had made key decisions during the early phases of the battle, blamed the South Vietnamese for the debacle.

Vann helps the town search for the missing athlete and even attends his memorial service.

The General Council in October 1835 rejected the proposed treaty but appointed a committee to go to Washington City to negotiate a removal treaty, a committee including not only John Ross but treaty advocates John Ridge, Charles Vann, and Elias Boudinot ( who was later replaced by Stand Watie ), to represent the Cherokee Nation East for a removal treaty with the stipulation that it has to be for more than five million dollars.

It was named for Cherokee leader James Vann ( builder of the Vann House, and crossed the river between Hall and Forsyth counties ( both created later on ), at a point now under Lake Lanier.