ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Chuck Macaluso, a Vietnam veteran who earned three Purple Hearts, still feels someone was looking out for him from above during the war. “Because there were a lot of people around me ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veterans are known for their great senses of humor, albeit sometimes completely morbid. But if you can’t laugh at it, how do you ...

People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...

The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...

Beginning in 1965, millions of American heroes courageously departed their homeland and arrived in the jungles of Vietnam to halt the spread of communism and defend the cause of freedom against forces ...

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 ...

I set out to write this piece marking 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War with hope ‒ hope for healing and progress. But as I reflected, I saw that we are still a long way from true healing and ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. — March 29, 1973: The last U.S. ground troops depart the Republic of Vietnam. Today, March 29 has become a day of recognition, remembrance, healing, and education; and marks the ...

After the conclusion of World War II, tensions in Southeast Asia grew as France attempted to reestablish colonial rule over Vietnam. The consequences of these efforts would lead to the Vietnam War, a ...

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...