READING, Pa. - This year marks the 37th anniversary of Reading's Vietnam War Memorial, which the city recently helped get some upgrades. Last fall and earlier this year the city refurbished the ...
I THOUGHT THIS WAS MY CHANCE TO SEE THE WORLD. SO MANY FROM SMALL TOWNS MUSKOGEE TO WINONA, MINNESOTA. IT WAS DOTTY’S HOMETOWN. I REALLY DIDN’T THINK THAT MUCH ABOUT SOME WAR GOING ON IN SOME LITTLE ...
BEDFORD, Va. (WDBJ) - A crowd filled Main Street in Bedford Saturday morning as the community came together to dedicate a new Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a project nearly two decades in the making and ...
How could America lose the Vietnam War? Even now, 50 years after the last American helicopters left Saigon, the answer is elusive. Despite pouring immense resources into Vietnam — including nearly 3 ...
In 1968, Lois Gay carried money from seven countries in small pouches with her so she had a little cash for whichever country she found herself in. Gay was a flight nurse in the U.S. Air Force and was ...
Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, the Air Force officer whose return from captivity during the Vietnam War was captured in an iconic photograph in 1973, has died at 92, according to CBS News. Stirm, an F-105 ...
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. (KABC) -- It was a special Veterans Day reunion for three men who served in the same Army unit in Vietnam. The reunion was nearly 60 years in the making! Gil Carrillo and ...
Diane Carlson Evans worked as an army nurse during the Vietnam War. She didn't receive a warm "welcome home" until her brother planned one decades later. Evans grew Stimulus check update: Trump ...
When Jerry Ferris was a senior at Withrow High School in 1967, he convinced five of his classmates to enlist with him in the U.S. Marines. The six of them went through Boot Camp together, were flown ...
Kathy Shore served as a 21-year-old Army nurse at a front-line hospital during the Vietnam War in 1968. Upon returning to the U.S., Shore faced a negative public perception of Vietnam veterans and ...
BOISE, Idaho — On April 23, 1975, in front of a crowd at Tulane University, President Gerald Ford declared the war in Vietnam over. Seven days later, on April 30, 1975, the fall of Saigon officially ...