After a year of wide-ranging efforts by Hegseth and others to denigrate Black military service, Skip’s life—in its triumph ...

Somewhere off the coast of Vietnam, April, 1966: A member of the USS Kitty Hawk’s ordnance crew moves bombs to planeside off the coast of Vietnam in April, 1966. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...

A paratrooper officer reflected upon his Vietnam service and the time he spent with Bob Hope and other celebrities there to entertain the troops serving there. “I traveled the Bob Hope Show in 1966,” ...

Anniversaries are usually times to celebrate—a birth, a marriage, a victory, an extraordinary achievement. But last month’s fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War was not for most ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

A Vietnam War veteran and former combat medic will serve as the grand marshal of Saturday’s Veterans Day Parade. Staff Sgt. James W. Reed, who served in the Army from 1966 to 1972 will lead the parade ...