Stanley Prybylski, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, was awarded a Purple Heart for injuries sustained when he stepped on a land mine.

The constitution gives Congress the power to enact a draft, with each draft deciding who is to be pressed into military ...

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Two American veterans of World War II who fought to free the Philippines in 1945 are headed back to help mark the 80th ...

Larry Chambers' orders saved lives by pushing helicopters into the sea during the end of the Vietnam War. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In April 1975, as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon, Americans ...

If Barbara Tuchman were still alive to update her classic book on cases of geopolitical stupidity and miscalculation, The ...

Despite its growing prosperity and ambition, the country still has to tread a careful line between larger regional and global ...

Author, historian and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson's new book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage ...

The Teach-in on Race is an annual series of guest speaker panels and interactive audience discussions hosted by Emerson that ...

What they told me was interesting: at the camp, they met a group of young Russians and had a meaningful conversation with them. "They told us they had come to Bali ... The report highlights growing ...

Mel M. Cohen has lived a life of service that continues to this very day. He was born in Kew Gardens, Queens, in 1948 and ...

With the Vietnam War and larger wars in Southeast Asia in Cambodia and Laos, two lines of thought on resisting that war in a ...