Walking Point with the Redcatchers
New arrivals in Vietnam were broken in by "walking point" - becoming the eyes and ears of a patrol. This dangerous duty weighed on everyone’s mind.
Memorial Day Veterans Ride Gets New Staging Area After Pentagon Rejection
The Rolling to Remember event will launch from the RFK Stadium this year, instead of its traditional Pentagon starting spot
Court-Martial of Lt. Calley: Behind-the-Scenes Legal Maneuverings
A closer look at how the court-martial of 1st Lt. William Laws Calley Jr. started at Fort Benning, Georgia
Last Words of A Marine’s Friend and Hero: ‘I’m Going to Get that Gun’
Marine 1st Lt. Lee Roy Herron saved the lives of numerous Marines before being killed during a Feb. 22, 1969 battle in the A Shau Valley
He Went from NYC to Vietnam to Deliver Beer During a War — Now His Story is Coming to the Big Screen
Raise your glasses, because this is going to be a fun one.
The Tensions of a Controversial War Explode at Kent State University on May 4, 1970
The Kent State shootings reconsidered
To Save Others: A Sergeant Forced the Enemy to Fire on Him
As trucks swerved to avoid enemy fire, Skidgel ordered his driver to go directly into the center of the enemy ambush
The U.S. Army’s Year of ‘Grievous Blows’
Fifty years ago one of America’s most decorated generals shared his outrage with the press
How Communist Propaganda Efforts Helped this American POW in Vietnam
“I was looking for any way for my family to know I was alive," Dewey Wayne Waddell recalled
A Controversial Question: What was the communists’ objective at Khe Sanh in 1968?
Actually, North Vietnam had several motives, some rarely discussed in the literature of the war.
USS Midway on Display
A San Diego museum showcases one of the Vietnam War’s most famous aircraft carriers
Khe Sanh Under Siege: A view from the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines
A Marine present at the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s combat operations center at the Khe Sanh Combat Base recalls the siege in harrowing detail
Secret War in Laos Told Through Life of Hmong Pilot
This book details the U.S. Air Force/CIA program recruiting young airmen from Laos’ Hmong mountain tribes to fly dangerous missions against communist forces
The Lost Battle of Lima Site 85
In “officially neutral” Laos, 3,000 communist troops converged on a handful of Americans at a top-secret 5,800-foot-high mountain base
Vietnam War-themed bar faces backlash, issues apology
A bar in Melbourne, Australia that adopted elements related to the Vietnam War as an aesthetic theme faced a heavy backlash and subsequently issued an apology.
Share Yours Now: Operation Triumphus Crowdsources Personal Stories of the Vietnam War
Operation Triumphus, a new web platform, gathers the stories of Vietnam veterans from the source
