"'To bear any burden' : a Hoosier Green Beret's letters from Vietnam examines FitzGibbon's war, from his arrival at the Cam Ranh Bay replacement center on February 6, 1968 to his life as a commander of a Special Forces A team based at Ha Tay ... After Ha Tay, FitzGibbon took charge of a struggling A team at Duc Lap in South Vietnam's Central Highlands before finally ending up as a staff officer in the operations and training section of the Fifth Special...

The collection is predominantly made up of correspondence between Richard Roudebush and various officials and constituents during the 89th, 90th and 91st Congresses (1966-1969).The collection includes correspondence, reports and other papers relating to legislation on agriculture, air traffic safety, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, housing programs and other civil rights measures, defense spending, crime, flood control in the Colorado River...