General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the ...
The New York-born businessman had already avoided being drafted four times by this point, seen as being in college was ...
The fall of the South Vietnam capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975 — soon to be 50 years ago — effectively spelled the end of ...
It was on March 16 1968 that the My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province where hundreds of Vietnamese ...
NEPTUNE -- Many Vietnam veterans returning home from the war remember getting spit on, with no parade no hero's welcome.
On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many ...
On Dec. 30, 1968, Howard -- then ... at Kon Tum in south-central Vietnam when his unit learned that the North Vietnamese had captured Allied prisoners of war. As Howard’s platoon landed in ...
This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War. In My Lai, where US forces massacred over 500 villagers, a ...
Congressman Joe Morelle honored local Vietnam War Veterans by presenting them with a Vietnam War commemoration lapel pin in ...