Discover how a Reno casino owner’s generosity in sending thousands of care packages to troops in Vietnam forged life-changing friendships and a legacy in the sky. In the shadows of the Vietnam ...

On Saturday, those who fought in that conflict gathered at the USS Hornet in Alameda for a ceremony marking National Vietnam War Veterans Day and they reflected on what lessons may have been learned ...

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first U.S. combat troops arriving in Vietnam. Millions of American servicemen and women would do tours of duty there, including Army specialist Henry Smithers.

Vietnam can't heal by erasing half its past Once in Vietnam, I met the soldier who first spotted U.S. troops landing on Danang's China Beach in April 1965. I had lunch with an American government ...

Susan Atkins. File Photo by Rich Lipski/UPI In 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam (some advisers and others remained), ending the United States' direct military involvement in a ...