Six Vietnam War movies have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and some, like Platoon and The Deer Hunter, won, ...

On Dec. 6, 1941, Young commanded the repair ship Vestal, which he fatefully brought alongside the battleship Arizona. The ...

CDR Edward Stanley Pietrzak, Jr. was born in 1935 in rural Pine Island, New York and graduated from Warwick High School in 1952, lettering in football, basketball, baseball, and track.

This year’s Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame class has a local flair to it.

If James “Jim” McKay spoke about his military service, it was usually in response to a question, in service of a joke or in ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth supports upgrading the Distinguished Service Cross for the Staten Islander who died saving lives during a 2013 attack.

K. Denise Rucker Krepp was thrilled when her distant Confederate cousin’s name was removed from Fort Rucker in 2023 and disheartened when the Trump administration returned the Army base in Alabama to ...

Mark S. Lightner, 78, of New Bloomfield died peacefully at home on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. He was born July 6, 1947, in Harrisburg to the late Albert E. and Eunice G. (Fogleman) Lightner of ...

Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams of Escondido has become eligible to receive the Medal of Honor for the courage he showed during an aerial dogfight during the Korean War in which he took on seven ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Thanks to efforts by Rep. Darrell Issa, the 2026 national defense bill includes language allowing the President to award a Congressional Medal of Honor to retired Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams, a ...

When The Sorrow of War was honored as one of Vietnam’s 50 most significant cultural works since reunification, the ceremony was brief and quiet. On stage, the novelist Bao Ninh — slight, soft-spoken, ...