VANG TAU, Vietnam – Under pressure from top Australian officials, Vietnam on Thursday lifted its sudden ban on veterans who had traveled to the country to mark the 50th anniversary of Australia's most ...

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The Vietnamese war has become so complex that a critical understanding of the situation and its possible solutions is impossible without extensive research. Jean Lacouture's book, Vietnam: Between Two ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

Harrison told writer Maureen Cleave that he thought about the war in Vietnam every day and he thought it was wrong. “Anything to do with war is wrong,” he said, as recorded in the book George Harrison ...

Instead of confronting the truth, we scrubbed the record clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today. A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near US troops in South Vietnam, 1966 ...

Soldiers have long been subjected to invidious generational comparison. It’s a military rite of passage for new recruits to hear from old hands that everything from boot camp to combat was tougher ...

Eleven thousand women served in Vietnam, according to the Veteran’s Administration and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation. Elsewhere that number dips to 10,000. Another estimate, this one from ...