Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and miscalculations ...

It was April 6, 1967, when 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell overboard, off the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Canberra and into Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. He spent hours in the ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - A Birnamwood area author is currently writing his second book, which will focus on veterans who served in the Vietnam War. Author Ryan Walkowski said it starts with the interview ...

History and pop culture have trained us to celebrate battlefield heroics and other forms of physical courage. Those actions are undeniably admirable, and in the past decade many Vietnam veterans have ...

I vividly remember the emotions that coursed through my body the first time I saw the Vietnam Women’s Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The sculpture depicts three uniformed women ...

He was a helicopter pilot they called “Combat Kelly,” and in the early years of the Vietnam War, Maj. Charles Kelly set the example for the daredevil flyers who would come to be called Army “Dustoff” ...

As if booby traps, underground tunnels and Viet Cong ambushes weren't dangerous enough for U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam, the soldiers in the new movie "Primitive War" have something else to contend ...