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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Vietnam War changed us as a nation. And it continues to shape us. More than half a century later, we have a better understanding of the balance between love of country and disagreeing with it.

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (WLS) -- Social media is connecting a Chicago-area family to its roots. A video recently tweeted shows Sylvester Bracey talking about racism while he was a soldier during the ...

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 ...

In a few days, on May 26, my classmate Samuel "Sammy" Roy Lynch from the Nacogdoches High School class of 1967 would turn 62, and like many of us, "baby boomers," he would be looking forward to ...