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."
Returned photos reveal a father never known, 50-year-old promise kept
Army Pfc. Pierre Mathieu Van Wissem went to Vietnam in 1965, and part of him never came home.
As the war rages abroad, counterculture rocks America
In 1959, “Leave It to Beaver” was in its second season on TV, the first Barbie dolls hit store shelves and Elvis Presley was on the music charts.
War forced hard choices for those who fought and those who did not
Millions of Americans in the 1960s and early 1970s had to decide what they would do when called to serve in a conflict that had mushroomed into the most polarizing event in the nation’s history since the Civil War.
Vietnam at 50: For those who prepared Vietnam's fallen, a lasting dread
The faces haunt him wherever he goes. Day, night, asleep, awake; the dead are unrelenting. They are young, horrifically burned, maimed, bloated beyond recognition, others just in pieces.
Vietnam at 50: Rolling Thunder escalated US involvement in Vietnam, pulled ground troops into combat
In 1964, Keith Connolly was a young Air Force pilot and was among the first Americans to fly sorties in the F-100 Super Sabre fighter bomber targeting the North Vietnamese communist insurgency.
Vietnam at 50: Soldier who stood firm against Viet Cong captors inspired fellow POWs, earned Medal of Honor
“VIET VICTORY NEAR,” blared a headline across the top of Stars and Stripes’ front page.