Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Philip LaBatte of Loudonville, a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Battle of Khe Sanh during the ...
The inspiration for this story came to me from a YouTube video that was originally posted three years ago by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs—but reshared on MSN two months ago via the ...
Between 1967 and 1968, Nancy Wells spent her waking hours stitching injured Americans back together amid the haze of the Vietnam War, treating wounds she'd never imagined seeing. When not on the ...
For 50 years they gathered dust in the basement — the scrapbooks, old photos and news clippings, honors and citations. The uniform and boonie hat remained at the back of a closet. But thanks to the ...
They came from all over. I thought this was my chance to see the world. So many from small towns. Muscoda, Winona, Minnesota. It was Dottie's hometown. I really didn't think that much about some war ...
On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the nearly 20-year Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam ...
I set out to write this piece marking 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War with hope ‒ hope for healing and progress. But as I reflected, I saw that we are still a long way from true healing and ...