Vietnam veteran Woody Vaspra speaks at Friday's opening of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall. LENOX, Mass. — Like many of ...

About 5.4 million Vietnam veterans are alive today. More than 500 Vietnam veterans die every day; many reside in hospices and long-term care facilities. As we honor their sacrifice, ...

Her dad passed away in 2020, but she’s keeping his memory alive by sharing his stories with other Vietnam War veterans and listening to theirs. “A lot of people misunderstood the Vietnam ...

Of the 1,839 men and women still alive from the ... the results suggest that between 4.5 percent and 11.2 percent of the male Vietnam veterans and 6.1 and 8.7 percent of the female vets ...

More than 30 Vietnam air cavalry veterans visited a contemporary air cavalry unit at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. That unit – the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, known as the ...

And this is the story of why there's not one more -- a story about a soldier who came about as close to dying as any man alive. John Colone's blessing of a nightmare began on Feb. 19, 1968.

Dig deeper: More than 58,000 Americans died during the Vietnam War; 2.6 million Americans served in Vietnam. The number of Vietnam Veterans alive today is quickly declining.

Many others didn't come home alive. The death count for U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War exceeded 58,000 before the government severed its involvement in 1973.

May 26—If any good came from the Vietnam War, if it taught us anything at all, the lesson was never to blame soldiers for bad political decisions. Support today for men and women in military ...