Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.
It was on March 16 1968 that the My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province where hundreds of Vietnamese ...
The death of soldiers. The death of leaders. The death of dreams. 1968 was the deadliest year of the Vietnam War for American soldiers and the families who lost them. 16,899 American soldiers were ...
The similarities between 2024 and 1968 warrant a comparison based on the political events and structure: Presidential election year Historically unpopular Democratic president War abroad Student ...
MANKATO — Even within the turbulent 1960s, 1968 stands out as one of the most consequential years in American history. The Vietnam War and resentment against it were reaching a boil, Martin ...
1968 was a year filled with conflict and transformation ... Young white students protested the Vietnam War while frustrated black people protested racism and poverty at home.
A look at the significance of the year 1968 in American history, from Apollo 8 and Vietnam, to the race riots and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert ...
Moments in which 1968 feels more than nominally tethered to the 1940s are few and far between, and even the phantasmagorical appearance of a key World War II figure can’t materialize these ...
Tanks of the former Soviet Union began rolling into the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague near midnight on Aug. 20, 1968. Alexander ... overlap with footage from war-torn Ukraine today.