About $300,000 has been set aside for the first phase of the project, which will include a marble wall engraved with the names of 1,584 Georgians who did not return home from the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War was a prolonged, expensive and divisive conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam whose main ally was the United States. Yet it often gets overlooked and is referred to as a “pointless war” that took the lives of over 3 million people including over 58,
The memorial honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Vietnam War, bearing the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.
Veterans, city, and state leaders gathered near the intersection of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Parkway and Watson Boulevard for the land dedication.
Not so many people realize that even the “kinder, gentler” U.S. Air Force had its own band of rough and ready ground-pounders who took the fight to the Communist enemy in Vietnam. We now recognize the USAF’s Combat Security Police units.
We have been learning about Sharon McCully, a 1957 Russell High School graduate who trained as a nurse and volunteered for the Air Force in 1968. She completed flight nurse training before deploying to Vietnam in May 1970,
Vietnamese netizens call to boycott 'Squid Game' for 'whitewashing of atrocities committed by South Korean soldiers'
WASHINGTON — At a White House ceremony on Friday, January 3, 2024, President Joe Biden presented Medals of Honor to seven Soldiers who served in either the Korean War or the Vietnam War.
A long-time advocate for military women, Diane Carlson Evans received one of the nation’s highest civilian honors during recent White House ceremony.
Veterans of the Vietnam War Post 52’s Saturday dinners for this week include baked or beer-batter haddock, spaghetti and meatballs, or shrimp baskets. The featured dinner will be chicken wings
The conflict in Vietnam seemed to encompass all aspects of modern combat in the 1960s and 70s. From guerrilla fighting to armoured warfare. From technologically advanced air power to small four-man boats with machine guns.
The Vietnam War lasted for almost 20 years, between 1955 and 1975—one of America's longest military conflicts. With its origins in post-World War II, Vietnam, and the anti-communist United States, this era of warfare produced some of the greatest war movies of the 1980s and beyond.