HANOI, Vietnam - "If Dad calls, tell him I got too close to being dead but I'm O.K. I was real lucky. I'll write again soon." That poignant message never reached the mother of Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty ...

It’s the ultimate homecoming photo — a smiling family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead with her ...

Jesse Bulldog walked the length of a traveling memorial dedicated to the 58,000 servicemembers who died during the Vietnam War. At each of the 141 panels, he stopped and wafted sage ash in a warrior ...

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...

He endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting, despite accounts to the contrary, that no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War. By Damien Cave Reporting from ...

LENOX — To honor U.S. soldiers who fought in the decades-long Southeast Asian conflict, the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall will be on display starting Thursday at the town’s War Memorial Field, 65 ...