Len Erickson, a Vietnam War Marine Corps veteran from northern Minnesota, served with the First Battalion, Seventh Marines ...

BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...

For most of his life Lee Roy Herron thought it was his destiny to fight for our country, and he wanted to be ready. When he left for Vietnam in late 1968, he was mentally and physically prepared for ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th ...

Memories of the Vietnam War came flooding back 50 years later to Fred Lopez. The Madera Ranchos man was on vacation in Oregon when a family friend saw a story on fresnobee.com about Marines looking ...

Half a century later, Dorothy Mack was no less startled than she was the first time a 21-gun salute sounded in honor of her late husband. The former Dorothy Stephens married Allen Glenn Mack on Dec.

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (WLS) -- Social media is connecting a Chicago-area family to its roots. A video recently tweeted shows Sylvester Bracey talking about racism while he was a soldier during the ...

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller presents the Navy Cross to Neily Esposito, daughter of Cpl. Stephen E. Austin, in Alexandria, Virginia, July 21. Cpl. Austin was killed in 1968 ...

Marine veterans who fought in the Vietnam War will return a stolen Buddha statue, right, to Vietnam. Before they depart, they're looking for a lost comrade, Al Lopez, who lived in Fresno, pictured far ...

SEOUL — As the U.S. and South Korea celebrate the 70th anniversary of their alliance this year, they will consider how their partnership, frequently characterized as "ironclad," is preparing for the ...