Thirty-five veterans from the Vietnam and Korean wars returned to Las Vegas after an emotional Honor Flight to Washington, ...
While much of the United States population had by 1971 turned against the war in Vietnam, as well as many of those who fought it, John Lavelle experienced a touching piece of support from his daughter ...
SUDBURY — It's almost been 50 years since a band of about 200 young, fatigue-clad veterans began a three-day trek from Concord to Boston that resulted in the largest mass arrest in state history.
Four U.S. Army veterans who rescued seven people from a burning transport plane during the Vietnam War each received a Silver Star on Tuesday for their heroic actions. Robert Monette, Robert Frank, ...
Letters from home helped Army Sgt. Dominic Cutalo get through brutal days of medevacking bloodied and broken soldiers off the battlefields of Vietnam. More than five decades later, the Huntington ...
It was 1971 and I was a military policeman in Da Nang, Vietnam. It was Christmas Day, and I was dog tired having just worked 12 hours, pulling guard duty all night. I stumbled back to my “hooch” and ...
FORT LEE, Va. (Feb. 4, 2016) -- Dennis Spagnoulo, a retired sergeant first class, spent 17 years as a supervisor working for the U.S. Postal Service following his Army career. In the process, he saw ...
On this day in 1971, for the first time since talks to end the Vietnam War began in Paris in May 1968, both sides refused to set another meeting date for the resumption of negotiations. The refusal to ...
South Vietnam, August 1971: Phyllis George, Miss America of 1971, poses outside a bunker while touring the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s Fire Support Base Mace. The future CBS sportscaster was on a three ...
From John Kerry's statement on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971. I would like to say for the record, and for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniform and ...
DES MOINES, Iowa – A Vietnam veteran has regained a special ring he lost at Lake Delhi 41 years ago. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that John Jones served in what was South Vietnam during ...