We have been learning about Karl Porisch, who graduated from Mankato State College in 1968 and completed Marine Corps officer and helicopter flight training. The Marine Corps assigned him to Okinawa, ...

Galloway describe the first moments of the battle of Ia Drang in 1965, which set the tone of the war in Vietnam and ... entered the back of my flight helmet, tore a hole in the side of my head ...

Casualty figures reflect the pattern of American involvement in the war. One local man, Navy flight surgeon Bruce C. Farrell of WESTLAKE, died in Oct. 1963, before the beginning of "the Vietnam era." ...

Like many who’d attended college in the 1960s, Todd’s political views trended in an anti-war ... a flight operations specialist at Georgia’s then-called Fort Benning, Todd went to Vietnam ...

Many became victims of the increasingly brutal Vietnam War. If the average American had to name a hero of recent history off the top of their head, the name John McCain would probably be high on ...

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...