BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...

Some readers expressed amazement, in light of the thousands of American deaths suffered in a war with no end in sight, that ...

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 ...

Marine veteran Bill Klobas, 71, (left) finally received a Purple Heart for wounds he received in 1969 while serving in Vietnam. His daughter Casey Byington fought for months to get the award approved.

For most of his life Lee Roy Herron thought it was his destiny to fight for our country, and he wanted to be ready. When he left for Vietnam in late 1968, he was mentally and physically prepared for ...

Friends, veterans and other supporters pay tribute during a memorial for Marine Pfc. Michael Terry, who died exactly 50 years earlier from wounds suffered when a comrade triggered a hidden explosive. ...

I’m here because the shrapnel that would have pierced my dad’s heart struck the 20-round magazine of his M16 instead. It wasn’t his first or last near-death experience as a Marine in Vietnam from 1968 ...

On a hot summer night 50 years ago, while other U.S. troops were fighting in Vietnam, dozens of Marines on Camp Lejeune, N.C. were fighting each other. The explosion of racial violence on the Marine ...

At age 19, Marine Pfc. Bruce Carter fought off a swarming enemy in 1969, then threw his body on a grenade to save his buddies during a close-quarters battle in Vietnam's Quang Tri province. His ...