In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of Vietnam. He was declared missing in action (MIA) for 10 years until the ...
And as a veteran I ask, as we enter the Christmas season, that we do not forget those who are today serving in the US military.
In 1988, 65 soldiers lost in the Vietnam War made the journey home. The Berks County natives who died or went missing overseas were carried in spirit by the Last Patrol. That was the name of the ...
E. Paige Lanier, who was an artilleryman in the battle of Suoi Tre in Vietnam, watches an exercise with Capt. Sophia Suri, as ...
DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A Decatur native's film will soon be coming to the big screen. "Brothers After War," a film directed by Decatur native Jake Rademacher, will have a film screening and seminar ...
(NEXSTAR) — It’s been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War but its impact on American families continues to be felt even to this day. Nowhere are the accounts of those who fought — including ...
GEORGETOWN, Texas — Georgetown resident Steve Valdez still remembers Thanksgiving Day 1967. Valdez was a mortarman on Hill 875 in Dak To, Vietnam during the height of the U.S. war against North ...
Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...