This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

When Jerry Ferris was a senior at Withrow High School in 1967, he convinced five of his classmates to enlist with him in the U.S. Marines.

Uncle Sam knew him as Corporal Peter Brown Cook Jr., a soldier. He was an Army man, First Battalion, Eighth Calvary Regiment, A Company.  A lot of titles, numbers and names.  But back home in Yazoo ...

Jerry Haywood of Coshocton served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a sergeant during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1969. Haywood is ...

Seymour Hersh is one of the most famous investigative reporters in American history. And he wrote for the National Catholic Reporter in the 1960s. (NCR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz) In the years before Hersh's ...

Vietnam War veteran Maj. James Capers Jr. receives Patriot Awards honor for saving seven Marines in combat. The 88-year-old ...

Captain Thomas Edwin Scheurich, a Vietnam War pilot missing in action for 57 years, was repatriated to Norfolk on Friday.

The second largest Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the United States is located outside Rockford’s Midway Village Museum, thanks ...

Vietnam veterans in Connecticut spent Veterans Day reflecting on how much has changed since they first returned home from war ...