SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013. The ballroom floor of the thirty-seventh Special Operations Association Reunion, an annual gathering closely tied to veterans of MACV-SOG, the Vietnam-era Studies and Observations Group. In the foreground is the vendor table of Steve Sherman's Radix Press, a specialist publisher of Special Forces unit histories, rosters and reference works; behind it, several hundred attendees fill banquet tables beneath the association's shield banner and 'SOAR XXXVII' signage. Reunions such as this served as both social occasions and working archives, where veterans corrected records, traded documents and reconstructed operational histories that had been classified for decades. Project: 219854