U.S. Navy sailor Doug Hegdahl was knocked off of the USS Canberra in the Gulf of Tonkin by a blast from the ship's massive ...

April White - Author, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier U.S. Army Pvt ... 225 years of American war history, from the early days ...

Vietnam War veterans in attendance were: • Pfc. Class James Clements Jr., U.S. Navy, served in Vietnam 1974 • Chief Warrant Officer 3 Herman Delk Sr., U.S. Army, served in Vietnam 1968-1969 ...

Five decades after its end, the Vietnam War remains synonymous with unrest in the U.S. The nation fully entered ... the North Vietnamese Army soon deployed surface-to-air missiles and radar ...

March 29, 1973: The last U.S. ground troops depart ... Both men were wounded during the War and the Army awarded a total of 351,000 Purple Hearts to Vietnam veterans. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial ...

Barely more than two years after Green Beret Robert Howard’s heroic attempt to retrieve a severely injured lieutenant from enemy-controlled territory during the Vietnam ... Army prisoner of war ...

Strong, 76, who served in the Army, said it had ... event to align with National Vietnam War Veterans Day, which marks March 29, 1973, as the date when the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam.

Fifty years after the end of the war, a group of U.S. veterans spent two weeks traveling through Vietnam by bus. They once came as soldiers. Now, they are searching for forgiveness. It’s the ...

File Photo by Rich Lipski/UPI In 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam (some advisers and others remained), ending the United States' direct military involvement in a war that didn ...

One of the people who can attest to what it was like coming home after the war is David Treffinger, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam in 1970 and 1971. David Treffinger is a U.S. Army veteran.

Donation Options Search Search Search Joe Ramírez, an Army soldier in ... those who served in the war. On March 29, 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, bringing America ...

Stories of unsung female heroes are having a moment, like Kristin Hannah’s “The Women,” which spotlights the “forgotten” female veterans of the Vietnam War. “There is something that ...