Bill Roedy in Vietnam and then in 2006 with Finnish heavy metal band Lordi at the European Music Awards. (Courtesy of Bill ...
He received the medal for his daring at the Battle of Ia Drang.
Fourteen times he flew into what they called the valley of death,” President George W. Bush said in awarding him the Medal of ...
Diane Carlson Evans, founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project is pictured in front of the sculpture in Washington D.C.
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Deeper ties with Japan, Vietnam

Amid a slew of depressing news, from surging prices of basic goods to the destructive intramurals in the Senate, the reports ...
Veterans of the unit known as the Redcatchers are gathering Tuesday to continue a friendship bond of more than 57 years.
Former Associated Press photographer Dang Van Phuoc has died at age 91. Phuoc was freelancing in Saigon in 1965 when AP’s ...
A photographer for The Associated Press, he spent a decade on the front lines of combat in his native Vietnam and lost his right eye in a grenade explosion.
Frank Dougherty, a retired Philadelphia Daily News reporter, speaks to Vietnam vets about how the Philadelphia Vietnam ...
It is the fifth time the Moving Wall Vietnam Memorial has been in Stockton. The memorial is open to the public 24 hours a day.
In some ways, the late 1960s were a great time to be a young man — flirting with girls, hanging out with friends, cruising ...
Every year, their families, friends and fellow veterans make Memorial Day personal, naming the city’s residents who were ...