Air Force veteran recalls time as POW in Vietnam
Gene Smith had just released two bombs in the sky over North Vietnam on Oct. 25, 1967, and was pulling out of a dive in his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft when the plane was hit by enemy fire.
Vietnam commemorates 50th anniversary of My Lai massacre
With talk of peace and cooperation rather than hatred, more than a thousand people marked the 50th anniversary Friday of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the most notorious episode in modern U.S. military history.
Still fighting: Vietnam vets seek help for rare cancer
They were the lucky ones who managed to make it home from Vietnam. Now, a half century later, some veterans are finding out they, too, are victims of the war.
Tour of duty: Vietnam helicopter pilots find each other during cross-country road trip
It is 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Jim Nowicki and Chris Oelerich have retreated to the cool darkness of the bar at The Princess as the shock troops of another Mississippi summer make their first advances. The two men, both retired now, are unwinding after a two-week, 3,000-mile car trip through about half the states to see seven of their old buddies.
Senate votes to scrap catfish inspection program
The Senate has voted to scrap a new catfish inspection program that critics have argued is wasteful and unnecessary.
Many Vietnam vets say they support lifting of arms embargo
The way Terry Neilen sees it, lifting the ban on U.S. arms sales to Vietnam makes sense in the face of China’s growing influence in the region.
Smith shares harrowing Vietnam POW story
Gene Smith lit a cigarette on the way down.
He was over Hanoi, Vietnam, on Oct. 25, 1967.
‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns — with iPhone
He stands in the northbound lane of Vietnam’s Highway 1, traffic swirling around him, horns honking. He is pointing. Right there, he says — that’s where it happened. That’s where the screaming children appeared. That’s where I made the picture that the world couldn’t forget.
Vietnam War 40 years on, enemies now friends but still pain
This city once known as Saigon was blanketed in red banners on Thursday that read “Long Live the Glorious Communist Party of Vietnam,” 40 years after northern forces seized control of the country and America walked away from a divisive and bloody war that remains a painful sore.
Humerus reunion: Doctor returns Vietnamese vet’s arm
HANOI, Vietnam — An American doctor has arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.
Veteran says Vietnam taught invaluable lessons
Turner Jackson was 21 when he left Columbus, headed for the jungles of Vietnam. As a young black man, the first lesson he had to learn was trust.
U.S.-Vietnam relations to be examined in MSU program
A Fulbright Scholar and authority on Vietnam will discuss the Southeast Asian country’s relationship with the United States and other topics during a June 7 program at Mississippi State University.
Jay lacklen: Saigon
Saigon, the defunct capital of South Vietnam, no longer exists except fondly in the memory of several hundred thousand American soldiers.