Cpl. Charles McMahon Jr. of the Marine Corps was among the last U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam more than 50 years ago. McMahon, of Woburn, Massachusetts, not only left behind a legacy of service and ...

In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of Vietnam. He was declared missing in action (MIA) for 10 years until the ...

A Study of Patriotism, The Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul,” by Matthew Delmont. Viking, 368 pp. $32. In 1965, when only a small fraction of Americans supported ending U.S. military ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

Community members and local dignitaries attended a memorial ceremony at The Wall That Heals, the three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial located in Washington, D.C. that was ...

Fifty years after Charlie McMahon became one of the last Americans killed in the Vietnam War, NBC News staffer Dawn DiCicco discovered a ring that once belonged to him among her late mother’s ...

The Vietnam War was a tragic and stressful time in the world, particularly for American soldiers, veterans, and the families they left behind. As a result of the very polarizing war, a lot of protest ...