After more than four decades, and the efforts of Rep. Virginia Foxx and local veteran’s organizations, Jim Judson was ...

Both men were wounded during the War and the Army awarded a total of 351,000 Purple Hearts to Vietnam veterans. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, also known as “The Wall,” has 58,281 names of ...

Private First Class Lewis Albanese was a member of the United States Army, who received a posthumous Purple Heart and the prestigious Medal of Honor for his courageous service during the Vietnam War.

Friends and family of a Vietnam veteran symbolically honored him with a Purple Heart medal he never received 55 years ago while recovering in Japan. Many know Lester F. Wray III as “Ripper” Wray or ...

According to the federal government, an estimated 300,000 Vietnam ... Heart isn't officially recognized by the Department of Defense, but that doesn't matter because people behind the medal ...

Fissel served in the Army from 1965 to 1968 ... York High’s James Bean served in the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines in Vietnam ...

Truman of Executive Order No. 9981 finally integrated the United States Army ... including many Medals of Honor and the first commissioned officers. It was not until Vietnam, however, that ...

Jerry Deible of Murrysville can remember standing on the ground at a Vietnam firebase in the early 1970s, staring up at a ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Monday quietly restored a web page it had removed about Army Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a Black man who earned the Medal of Honor for his leadership during the ...

March 29th is a fitting choice for a day honoring Vietnam veterans. It was chosen to be observed in perpetuity as March 29, 1973 was the day United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam as the ...