From the Archives
DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
'The torture stopped': 1969 brought temporary changes to infamous Hanoi Hilton
American prisoners of war locked up for years in North Vietnam knew the drill. Bow to their captors or take a beating. But in October 1969, the rules changed.
Patriotism or protest? Army vet Jimi Hendrix had the 'most electrifying moment' at Woodstock
On Aug. 18, 1969, former soldier Jimi Hendrix, resplendent in bright red headband, white fringed shirt and bell-bottom blue jeans, unfurled what has been called the cultural moment of the 1960s when he played an incendiary instrumental version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” for remnants of the crowd at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y.
Hamburger Hill: For war-weary Americans, 10-day battle defined futility of Vietnam War
Fifty years after leading a company of soldiers up Hamburger Hill, Gerald “Bob” Harkins sees the assault against burrowed-in North Vietnamese army forces no differently than he did then.
Returning to Vietnam
Fifteen men gathered at an airport in Los Angeles on Friday morning, shook hands, chatted and then boarded a plane bound for the one place each had once desperately wanted to escape forever — Vietnam. With the trip behind them, the Vietnam veterans reflect on what returning to the battlegrounds of their youth meant.
My Lai: Where are they now?
A look at what happened to some of the key players in the My Lai massacre and its aftermath.
Saigon embassy attack: ‘They’re coming in!’
In the walled courtyard of the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City stands a monument with the names of the five servicemembers who died on the site 50 years ago during an opening salvo of the Tet Offensive.