The Vietnam War stands as one of the most costly and divisive conflicts of the 20th century, pitting North Vietnam’s communist government against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United ...
It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to admire the view. Then came the snap of a wire. “They must’ve thought, ‘This is ...
LAYTON — The Utah chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America is set to commemorate 50 years since the Vietnam War ended. In an email sent to the Standard-Examiner this week, Dennis Howland — Utah ...
During the Vietnam War era, anti-war protests took place in Sheboygan. A 1967 vigil at Fountain Park featured demonstrators protesting the war as morally wrong and illegal. Local men, including a ...
LITTLETON, Colo. (KDVR) — Richard Hogue gained the kind of perspective in Vietnam you can only learn when you lose something important. In his case, he lost half his left leg. He’d already survived an ...
Perhaps historical amnesia is not such a bad thing, despite George Santayana’s warning in 1905’s “The Life of Reason” that those who “cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” One reason ...
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- History is being honored and remembered at the National Naval Aviation Museum with a new exhibit on Friday. The exhibit shines a light on what life was like for prisoners of war and ...