ATLANTA - Donna Rowe's Vietnam scrapbooks are more than a half-century old, and the Kennesaw, Georgia, nurse turned realtor is 80 now. However, her Vietnam War experience is still a big part of Rowe's ...

The year is 1969, the height of the war in Vietnam. The United States has been involved for about four years at this point and the war is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The Vietnam War ...

Black Virgin Mountain, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1969: A patrol is about to depart on a mission outside the mountain top’s perimeter wire in search of enemy activity. Multi-service forces had been ...

There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

In March 1965, the United States became involved in the Vietnam War to prevent communism from spreading to that recently divided country’s southern half. That same year, a nationwide protest movement ...

VO DOT, VIET NAM: American soldiers of the 173th airborne are evacuated by helicopter from a Vietcong position 11 December 1965. (Photo credit should read AFP via Getty Images) The American economy ...