News

People have told V Cafe Owner KimChi Vu that her Vietnamese restaurant inside the Dubois VFW post is surprising or ironic.
Last weekend, the USS Jeremiah Denton was christened in honor of the Vietnam War hero who has local family ties.
Bob Adams and I were two Chico High grads, a year apart, halfway around the world — crossing paths again just before one of us vanished, and the other began to understand how one life can echo ...
Nearly 60 years after the mortars stopped falling, John Kooistra still carries pieces of the Vietnam War. Not metaphorical, ...
Born just after the end of World War II, Russell “Russ” Griffith’s life was shaped by service. A Parkersburg native and ...
A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most important (although not the most glamorous) assets of US Navy in the Vietnam War. It was the ...
It was 1966, and the Vietnam War was turning out to be unlike anything else the US military had faced before. Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense, was severely concerned; despite massive ...
He graduated from training at Parris Island in May 1966 and left that Thanksgiving for Vietnam. He was killed during a defensive action in January 1967, at age 19.
In 1966, I was a junior at Harvard, and I had turned against the Vietnam War. But I gave in to my father’s pressure to remain in a Marine Corps officer candidate program and I served as a Marine ...
In 1966, the Chinese American became one of the roughly 2 million men drafted into the Vietnam War. At just 19 years old, the native San Franciscan was part of a unit called the Geronimo Battalion.
(Jack Picciolo) Building a library to make amends wasn’t Picciolo’s idea. He met Charles “Chuck” Theusch, 73, through his volunteering with the nonprofit Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Millions of U.S. troops fought in Vietnam. For some Americans, the war that effectively ended with the fall of Saigon 50 years ago Wednesday on April 30, 1975, continues to shape their lives.