Sandra van Bebber traded comfort for courage, answering the call to serve in the Vietnam War when her country needed her.

War is often erroneously understood as a purely masculine arena. But women have always played indispensable roles in battle, even if they’ve been historically relegated to the sidelines—and the ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war in Vietnam affected veterans in the Alamo City and South Texas.

Between 1967 and 1968, Nancy Wells spent her waking hours stitching injured Americans back together amid the haze of the Vietnam War, treating wounds she'd never imagined seeing. When not on the ...

The inspiration for this story came to me from a YouTube video that was originally posted three years ago by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs—but reshared on MSN two months ago via the ...

Riley Moser is a digital producer who covers breaking news and feature stories for CBS Minnesota. Riley started her career at CBS Minnesota in June 2022 and earned an honorable mention for sports ...

“The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah says of her earliest inspiration for her new novel, “The Women.” “My friends’ fathers were serving, and in fact, my best friend’s father ...

ENID, Okla. — Artwork honoring the service of women during the Vietnam War was unveiled during a ceremony marking National Vietnam War Veterans Day on Saturday , March 29, 2025, at Woodring Wall of ...

Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam War nurse and trailblazing advocate, received two awards Thursday at the Montana Military Museum celebrating her decades of service and fight for women veterans' ...

The idea to write about nurses in combat zones in the Vietnam War came easy, novelist Kristin Hannah says. The writing? Not so much. “The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah ...

For 50 years they gathered dust in the basement — the scrapbooks, old photos and news clippings, honors and citations. The uniform and boonie hat remained at the back of a closet. But thanks to the ...

Kristin Hannah's latest novel is called "The Women," but the title rings true for all of her novels. From ”The Nightingale” to “The Four Winds,” a Read With Jenna pick, Hannah has become known for ...