Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...

Readers discuss free speech implications over Columbia professor’s alleged antisemitism. Regarding the Jan. 24 front-page ...

Stirm’s homecoming was not as sweet as “Burst of Joy” suggests. T he homecoming of Vietnam Prisoner of War Lt. Col. Robert L.

Some tourists choose to visit sites where tragedies have occurred such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

Stratton, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 93, was a Quincy native and one of the longest-serving POWs of the Vietnam war.

Fitzgerald researched Stratton's life for the city when a street was named in honor of him. He said that Stratton was born and raised in North Quincy, where he grew up on Bowdoin Street, attended ...

A Massachusetts man who served as a pilot in the Vietnam War and was held in a prison camp for over 2,200 days will be buried in his hometown's cemetery this week.

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...

Holocaust Memorial Day was marked at a Saltburn care home with the lighting of 80 candles for the 80th anniversary of the ...

Federal officials identify the remains of U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, from Wisconsin who went missing during ...

Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced ...