HEWITT, TX (FOX 44) — Many veterans served in Vietnam before the fall of Saigon in 1975. One of them is Hewitt attorney Jon Ker, who served in Vietnam from January 1969 to January 1970. Here’s his ...

Saigon, South Vietnam, October 1969: Unidentified person hands out boxes of Jujyfruits candy to local Vietnamese children in Saigon. This photo was one of many taken during Stars and Stripes ...

Oliver Noonan’s ‘Waiting for Help, Saigon 1969’ is part of ‘Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina,’ at the Everhart Museum in Scranton through the end of the year. FRED ADAMS ...

BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...

Last week, we observed the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. My mixture of many raw emotions today is much the same as it was on April 30, 1975. In 1975, I came to an understanding that the ...

CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich. — William Kyle Gowen spent his 21st birthday landing in Vietnam. The year was 1968, and he was a Marine Corps medic. "Stayed there 10 and a half months," said Gowen. "Got three ...

There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...