The pleasure of spending a few hours with 99-year-old Loyd Brandt and Joyce, his wife of 78 years, is also splendid food for ...

It was July 1968 and Jim Files — an airborne and scuba-qualified reconnaissance Marine — was assigned with fellow Marines to guard a bridge at Cam Lo, Vietnam. “We would scuba under the ...

I attended Duke University on a Naval ROTC scholarship. My parents were delighted because they had both served in the Navy. In August of my junior year, I announced that I was “going Marine option,” ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 led his nine-member team to safety despite being ...

Retired Marine Lt. Col. David “Bull” Gurfein, CEO of United American Patriots, has compared Capers’ story to that of another reconnaissance Marine who did receive the Medal of Honor.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers, Jr. received the Silver Star Medal in 2010 for actions in the Vietnam War. (Courtesy of Jim Capers) A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a ...

Former Marine Sgt. Jerry Byal (left) and former Army 1st Lt. John McCorkle stand next to the Morgan County Veterans Memorial in Nichols Park. Both are Vietnam War veterans who live in Jacksonville.

Don Chretien, a former captain with the U.S. Marine Corps and a Vietnam veteran, in Biddeford spoke about his service and the lessons he wished this country would've learned from the conflict.

USMC Museum Highlights on Vietnam The Marine Corps Museum’s Vietnam exhibit finally reopened earlier this year and, according to a couple of the docents, is still only about 33 percent complete.

In 2020, he wrote a memoir about his experiences called, “Fly the Friendly Skies of Cambodia and Vietnam.” Some 115 thousand Iowans served in the Vietnam War, and 868 of them died there.

On April 29 and 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, U.S. Marine Corps pilots evacuated more than 7,000 from the capital.