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Inducted into the Marine Corps at a 1967 Twins game with 149 others, North Branch author Christy Sauro spent years collecting ...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 led his nine-member team to safety despite being ...
Oregon has paid tribute to a local hero, Charles Benjamin "Chuck" Mawhinney, through Senate Concurrent Resolution 28, ...
CANFIELD — Marine Corps veteran Paul C. Boucherle spent his military life working on black boxes as part of a specialized mission in Vietnam in the 1970s. Boucherle grew up on the North Side of ...
VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) — It’s been a nearly two-and-a-half-year journey to unveil a newly restored Vietnam War Memorial. The story behind the memorial with marines from the 5th Marine Regiment ...
Charles Armitage served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was wounded in combat in 1968. Now 72, he lives in Conroe, Texas. (Department of Veterans Affairs/screenshot from video) ...
The last day Jack Simpson had both his legs was Nov. 10, 1968, when he was a 19-year-old Marine Corps soldier deployed for the Vietnam War. At 6 a.m. Nov. 11 — on Veterans Day — Simpson ...