BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...

Wednesday, March 27 – Friday, March 29 will be recognized in Hamilton County as Vietnam Veterans Appreciation Day to coincide with the national observance, Friday, March 29. Only recently has the ...

For Cohasset, Mass., 1969 held the worst eight months of the Vietnam War, when 5 of the town’s soldiers were killed in action, including three from the Cohasset High School Class of 1966. No year in ...

The depiction of the Vietnam War in popular culture just isn’t for Terry Coons. He lived it, as a member of the Army’s 23 rd Infantry Division in 1969 and 1970. This memory from those 13 months has ...

The funny thing? Michael Yalango wasn’t even all that much of a Mets fan. He’d grown up with the Brooklyn Dodgers as a kid on Staten Island, but that ride had ended 12 years earlier when they pulled ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) With the passage of time, history has a tendency to soften its edges. Not so in Images from Vietnam 1969, the powerful new book by U.S. Army veteran James M. Stanish. This ...

In May 1969, Jim McCloughan was a 23-year-old private serving as an Army medic in Vietnam. During the ferocious, days-long battle of Nui Yon Hill, he repeatedly entered the kill zone to rescue wounded ...

There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X SPRINGFIELD >> Sixty-two days into his tour in Vietnam, Army 1st Lt. Theodore “Ted” Burton was killed in action, ...

We've all heard stories of soldiers that went off to war and in their time overseas dreamed of the car they were going to buy when they returned home, or "state side." John Adornetto turned 21 in 1968 ...

Plans were revealed Friday for massive New York City participation in the nationwide Vietnam Moratorium on October 15 which will seek to “end business as usual” on that day and revive a broad based ...