When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...

This year and next year, when most of the men served, mark the 50th anniversaries of some of the bloodiest months of the Vietnam War. The year 1967 saw the deaths of 11,400 Americans, and 1968 claimed ...

Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...

On David Monroe Shoup’s second trip to the sandy beaches of Betio Island on Nov. 20, 1968, he didn’t have to dodge enemy fire. The decorated Marine and former commandant of the Marine Corps walked ...

Of all the sovereign nation-state military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines—who trace their founding back to April 15, 1949—arguably had the most fearsome ...

Of all the military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines had the most fearsome reputation.

In the fall of 1967, a land mine in Vietnam killed a Fort Mill teen, husband and expectant father on his first patrol as a Marine. A month later, another mine killed a Rock Hill soldier with 10 ...

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time. This article appears in the April 2024 issue. During a sermon in ...

USS John L. Canley joined the active fleet as the US Navy's newest warship, a floating sea base. The Canley is the Navy's sixth expeditionary mobile base (ESB). The first of its name, the warship ...

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