Gary Kremer served in Vietnam in 1970. When he came back to the States at Christmastime, the Army told him to make sure he took off his uniform to avoid trouble from the anti-war protesters back home.

Steven Goben, a St. Joseph native and Vietnam War veteran, is preparing to return to Vietnam through a therapeutic program ...

With the name of John Wayne Edwards, there were times as an Army soldier on patrol in the jungles of Vietnam that he felt invincible. Edwards was twice wounded and is a Purple Heart recipient. Today, ...

Australian citizens offered little opposition to their country’s early involvement in the Vietnam War. Opposition came from groups like Youth Campaign Against Conscription (YCAC), founded in 1964, and ...

The depiction of the Vietnam War in popular culture just isn’t for Terry Coons. He lived it, as a member of the Army’s 23 rd Infantry Division in 1969 and 1970. This memory from those 13 months has ...

Major General John A.B. Dillard, Jr. The last time an Army general was killed in combat overseas, Richard Nixon was in the White House and the Vietnam War was still ­raging. It was May 12, 1970, when ...

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Robert Martin’s platoon was sent to check out an enemy bunker complex that had been hit with heavy airstrikes. He heard a coughing sound. “In this one bunker I found three ...

Nixon withdraws troops but upon sending forces to Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites. With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an ...

In April 1970, 22-year-old James Speed Hensinger, an enlisted man in the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade, was stationed at a compound in Phu Tai, west of the coastal city of Qui Nhon, Vietnam. Over ...

AMERICA’S ill-fated involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s led to a humiliating military defeat - and unprecedented political unrest at home. More than 58,000 US soldiers and in ...