Before Tom Selleck graced American television screens in “Magnum P.I.” and as Frank Reagan in “Blue Bloods” he served in the ...

Gen. Scott Sherman also said about 500 of the National Guard troops have been trained so far to accompany agents on immigration operations. Photos of Guard soldiers providing security for the agents ...

NINA MOINI: Well, if you've spent much time in Minnesota or a high school English class, chances are you've heard of Tim O'Brien. Maybe we've even read his award-winning Vietnam War short story ...

“Peace Is a Shy Thing” by Alex Vernon. When writer and Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien, best known for the 1990 short story cycle “The Things They Carried,” finally relented and agreed to a ...

"The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien (1990) The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged while the U.S. still had a military draft, and the last to inspire a wide range of notable, first ...

The best Vietnam War books from Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and others offer new insights and perspectives into the conflict that you probably never got from history class.

“The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien (1990) The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged while the U.S. still had a military draft, and the last to inspire a wide range of notable ...

STRATFORD — A little more than a year after William O’Brien Jr. finished a 13-month tour of duty in Vietnam, he climbed onto a bus headed for Washington, D.C. The then-college student had ...

April 30 marks 50 years since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, though the conflict changed the U.S. in fundamental ways and left veterans like Burrows to often face the brunt of the public scrutiny.

Then there was another battle for so many returning soldiers: Traumatic stress syndrome. “Coming back from the war, it was really something to see people. I probably had it early on,” Howard said.

The images changed how the world saw Vietnam, but especially how Americans saw their country, soldiers and the war itself, which ended 50 years ago this month.