Groups honor tens of thousands of Americans who died — and disappeared — in combat, even as some are identified through new ...

One local church will host a special gathering next Thursday to support veterans of the Vietnam War and hear firsthand experiences from prominent veterans. A Patriots Day Tribute to honor Vietnam vets ...

NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC, Hawaii — Sharon Deane crouched in front of the Courts of the Missing monument in Honolulu on Friday morning and completed a long-overdue honor for her late ...

There are 26 Vietnam War POW/MIA’s from Wisconsin. The group lit a candle to honor each one of them and read off their names. ZaRonis Pizza in Oshkosh celebrates grand reopening, featuring ...

History and pop culture have trained us to celebrate battlefield heroics and other forms of physical courage. Those actions are undeniably admirable, and in the past decade many Vietnam veterans have ...

The front-page newspaper photograph was striking on the morning of April 6, 1967 — a dramatic image showing the U.S.S.

It was April 6, 1967, when 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell overboard, off the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Canberra and into Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. He spent hours in the ...

A retired U.S. Navy captain born and raised in Quincy, who also was one of the longest-serving POWs during the Vietnam War, will be buried in his hometown with full military honors, including four ...

This month marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. A Colorado man has a unique perspective on the war: he was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese for more than six… ...

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Dick Stratton, a Navy pilot and a prisoner of the Vietnam War who endured more than 2,000 days of captivity and torture in North Vietnam, has died at the age of 93.

Doug Hegdahl, pictured in captivity around Christmastime in 1968, was serving with the Navy on a warship off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 when he fell overboard – paving the way for him to become the ...