Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War – the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans will gather to ...
In February 1968, American forces in Vietnam were still reeling from the sudden onslaught of the Tet Offensive. The January ...
Larry Grant Jones, a USMC Vietnam War veteran and Silver Star recipient, died March 2 at his home in Tuolumne County. He was 78. Jones earned the Silver Star in July 1968 by saving more than 20 of his ...
They met on a hill in a far corner of Vietnam. Especially on Veterans Day, David “Randy” Norton of Charlotte and Larry McCartney of Black Mountain remember that time in early 1968 at Khe Sanh, the ...
Ron Rees knew a firestorm awaited him when his plane touched down 50 years ago in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. What he did not know was where to run. Rees, who now lives in Cove, was one of about two ...
SAN DIEGO — Two Vietnam veterans were awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star medals for their courage in a battle on a jungle hillside where more than 75 percent of the troops with them that day were ...
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War -- the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans are gathering to ...
Bill Rider considered himself a grizzled veteran of the Vietnam War that late January night in 1968 when the first waves of North Vietnamese soldiers and their Viet Cong allies attacked U.S. and South ...
Few Americans had it rougher in the Vietnam War than the 6,000 or so Marines who were caught at Khe Sanh during the infamous January–April 1968 siege by the North Vietnamese Army. Corbett was one of ...
Journalist Jones (Honor in the Dust) examines one of the most iconic and controversial engagements of the Vietnam War, the 77-day (February%E2%80%93April 1968) siege ...
EXCLUSIVE: John Wells has come attached to direct the Vietnam War drama Khe Sanh. The script is being witten by Jason Horwitch, whose credits include the YouTube Red series Impulse, Luke Cage and ...