BY JODY BENSONLos Alamos I invited a friend to dinner for Vietnam Veterans Day—he, a Vietnam Vet in the 8th Infantry who got “in country” right after TET, and I, ARC SRAO (Donut Dollie) ...
American soldiers in Vietnam communicated using so much slang and shorthand that it almost seems like its own English dialect ...
Des­pite the rain and cold, residents turned out on the Tewksbury Town Com­mon to recognize Na­tional Vietnam War Vet­erans Day, held on March 29 each year in honor ...
Marine Sgt. Alfredo Gonzalez’s webpage was removed from the U.S. Navy history website, as part of the Trump administration’s ...
Willie Ross Dennis had been laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the cemetery near the unmarked graves of his parents and his ...
A trip to Gettysburg offers a glimpse into the sacrifices and valor of those who mustered in at Camp Randall and served in ...
Lorraine Burbank was 10 in 1967 when a priest and two Marines showed up at her gate. Saturday, Burbank traveled back to Brockton to honor her brother.
While early American soldiers took inspiration from European armies for their uniforms — typically more formal — a wave of ...
It was a somber day marked by an appropriately dreary overcast, though no rain interrupted the event, which celebrated a ...
Hippies were in full weird, pot was king and Vietnam War protests raged on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It was 1969.
Imagine seeing the pin, screw and rod-riddled X-rays of Marine Corps Cpl. Kyle Carpenter's injuries from a grenade blast in Afghanistan; reading the ...
Maj. James Capers’ bravery helped his men survive an enemy attack. Now South Carolina’s congressional delegation is asking ...