John Driver

At a barbershop in Ringsend, Dublin, hangs a purple heart awarded to Lieutenant John Driver of the 101st Airborne, killed in action when his patrol was ambushed in Thua Thien, South Vietnam on April 17, 1969. His older brother, Jim Driver, keeps his memory alive with a display of memorabilia in his barbershop, and until recently John Driver was believed to be the only Irish … [Read more...] about Irish Heroes of the Vietnam War