With the passage of time, history has a tendency to soften its edges. Not so in Images from Vietnam 1969, the powerful new book by U.S. Army veteran James M. Stanish. This unforgettable photo memoir ...

When the Michigan Vietnam Veterans Traveling Memorial was in Milford this winter, Brian Howe of Highland Township looked for his community and saw one name: Larry Bryan. Army Pfc. Bryan, 20, was ...

PIEDMONT, S.C. — On New Year’s Eve 1968, just before the dawn of 1969, two Marines were holed up in a bunker in the Marble Mountains of Vietnam. Rockets and mortars were raining down all around Master ...

ATTICA, Ohio — It's been 49 years since the last American soldiers left Vietnam. Many of the soldiers who fought in the war never got to go home, but their names will never be forgotten because those ...

Tom Hennessey, PhD, carries a well-informed perspective on American military history and involvement during the past half-century. He and his father both served 28 years in the Army, with the son ...

John Adornetto turned 21 in 1968, the year he got drafted. Living in Jersey City, New Jersey, John didn't have to travel but 66 miles to get to Fort Dix, where he spent three months in boot camp ...

The following dispatch ran on the front page of the Minneapolis Tribune on Sunday, June 29, 1969, topped by this note: "Pfc. Tim O'Brien, a 1968 graduate of Macalester College from Worthington, Minn., ...

American soldiers listened to a record player as they stood in a trench at the beleaguered U.S. Marine outpost in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. Bettmann Archive Getty Images “We gotta get out of this place ...

Since the last American soldier left South Vietnam in 1975, the history of Special Operations has become its own niche in the wider history of the war. If the reader is familiar with the genre, they ...

FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Va. — Cheers erupted as Vietnam War veterans were celebrated for their service during the Army & Air Force Exchange Service Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Pinning Ceremony March 28.

They thought their protest against the Vietnam War would have short-lived repercussions. Early that sunny morning 50 years ago, Les Bayless, who was 22, his brother, Jonathan, 17, and Michael Bransome ...