Memorial Day is a difficult day to write about and for many to think about as we remember our loved ones - ancestors and veterans - and especially those who died in a war. We remember the patriots of ...

Jim Matchin, a Vietnam veteran with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, spoke at a building renaming ceremony on Caserma Ederle in ...

On a remote airfield at dawn in Frederick, Oklahoma, twenty-two veteran paratroopers took to the skies for a 60-second thrill ride - all as a way to honor those who have served and sacrificed among ...

Troops of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade dash for cover after helicopter landing in the Viet Cong infested D-zone stronghold 20 miles Northeast of Saigon, Vietnam on May 4, 1966. Loaded down with ...

Association secretary and Vietnam veteran Tim Austin remembered the excitement when he learned at the replacement depot in Saigon that he was going to the 173rd. "Before I went to Vietnam I had ...

As Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” documentary wraps up, we look at those memories, lessons learned and lost, and Afghanistan right now. In this Jan. 1, 1966 file photo, a Paratrooper of the 173rd U.S.

CLINTON -- Route 173 between Clinton and Phillipsburg has been named in honor of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Legislation sponsored by state Sen. Michael Doherty (R-23) has been signed into law. The ...

Armored Personnel Carriers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade rumble along in a tanks as they move through Vietnam's War Zone C to a new area of operations, March 9, 1967, during the Vietnam War. The ...