Veterans are known for their great senses of humor, albeit sometimes completely morbid. But if you can’t laugh at it, how do you get through it? Sometimes the best way to heal is through humor. The ...

Vietnam War Army veteran Harry Metzler pays respects to men he served with in the 1st Infantry Division at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. Fifty years ago, communist ...

STRATFORD — A little more than a year after William O’Brien Jr. finished a 13-month tour of duty in Vietnam, he climbed onto a bus headed for Washington, D.C. The then-college student had heard word a ...

In March 1965, the United States became involved in the Vietnam War to prevent communism from spreading to that recently divided country’s southern half. That same year, a nationwide protest movement ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Daniel Shea is an anti-war veteran. That may sound like an oxymoron, but to understand it, you have to know his son Casey. At three years old, Casey died after heart surgery ...

“The Vietnamese national character is rapidly changing. Our value system is falling apart. Gangsters are making incredible fortunes on the black market.” –Professor Hoang Ngoc Hien, Hanoi intellectual ...

The pictures made the story of the massacre inescapable. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING FOR SOME VIEWERS. Vietnam-- a war and a country with which America has never come to terms.

The CBU-24, a key cluster bomb during the Vietnam War era, was an unguided dispenser releasing up to 665 BLU-24/B bomblets—small, roughly baseball-sized explosives filled with steel fragments.

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

War movies concerning the Vietnam War encompass the specific traits that make them easily distinguishable from other films within the war genre. The majority of Golden Era war movies, which heavily ...