Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and Vietnamese-Americans flooded the USS Midway’s flight deck Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the war’s end — and the daring rescues that came with it. The ...
The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...
The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...
Red-and-gold banners snapped in the sticky morning breeze above a quarter-mile-long grandstand holding some 5,600 Vietnamese dignitaries and foreign guests. I occupied one of the cushioned seats, ...
Lance Cpl. Darwin Lee Judge, 19, of Marshalltown, Iowa, was one of the last Americans killed in the Vietnam War on April 29, 1975. Judge died in a mortar attack at Tan Son Nhut Air Base during ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president’s ability to send troops into extended combat without ...
A dead-end alley: the United States, France and the First Indochina War, 1950-1954 -- Our offspring: nation-building in South Vietnam, 1954-1961 -- Limited partnership: Kennedy and Diem, 1961-1963 -- ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — The leader of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party called Wednesday for reconciliation and national unity during celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the ...
Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.
When Deepak Chopra, who today is internationally recognized as one of the leaders of the integrative approach to medicine, arrived in New Jersey in 1970 fresh out of medical school in India, he got a ...