WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Dodge City native Jesse Ramos answered the call to service in 1968 by joining the Marines. “I really did like the Marine Corps uniforms, but I think maybe once I got to ‘Nam, I ...

Anniversaries are usually times to celebrate—a birth, a marriage, a victory, an extraordinary achievement. But last month’s fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War was not for most ...

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...

With the last helicopter evacuations flying out of Saigon, South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, and the fall of the capital and country, that day marked the end of a long war that began in the 1950s.

The Broomfield Veterans Museum’s March 22 daylong symposium will honor the veterans who served in the Vietnam War 60 years ago. “In March of ‘65, President Johnston felt compelled to send in the ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 led his nine-member team to safety despite being grievously ...

For Americans, Saigon is both a place and a symbol, a welter of impressions and a locus of deep feeling. Between 1955, when President Dwight Eisenhower sent the first U.S. military advisors to counter ...