In April 1968, a black car pulled into the driveway of the Brooks family home in Pittsfield. A U.S. Marine dressed in a crisp navy blue uniform stepped out, accompanied by a chaplain. Without a word, ...
Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...
Of all the military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines had the most fearsome reputation.
Decades after surviving more than 2,600 days as a prisoner of war, Vietnam veteran Harlan Chapman has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. During the war, he was a Marine ...
Nearly 50 lawmakers wrote a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging him to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine veteran for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War, according to a copy of ...
When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...
Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.
“Turning Point: The Vietnam War” opens with Brooklyn-born Scott Camil telling his piece of the American story. Camil says his stepfather was involved in the John Birch Society and hammered into him ...
Of all the sovereign nation-state military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines—who trace their founding back to April 15, 1949—arguably had the most fearsome ...