On November 15, 1969, an iconic bluegrass picker broke off from the Nashville establishment and performed at a Vietnam War protest.

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 ...

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 ...

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (WLS) -- Social media is connecting a Chicago-area family to its roots. A video recently tweeted shows Sylvester Bracey talking about racism while he was a soldier during the ...

While aboard the USS Coral in the Gulf of Tonkin for the U.S. Navy, Raymond Knisley knew little about what it is his ship was doing as part of the Vietnam War effort. He would receive newspaper ...

A Guthrie family is asking for your help in getting a letter written in 1969 back in the right hands. The carefully penned pages involve a service member from the Vietnam War. Glendon Birdwell, who ...

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 ...

My boots first stepped down on Vietnam’s soil in midsummer 1969, in between the Apollo moon landing and the Woodstock music festival. I had just wrapped up my teenage years and thought I was an adult, ...

We’ve all heard stories of soldiers that went off to war and in their time overseas dreamed of the car they were going to buy when they returned home, or “state side.” John Adornetto turned 21 in 1968 ...