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Mess Management Specialist 2nd Class Williams Hendrickson scans for mines from the bow of the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) during an Earnest Will...
By Jim Cardillo, USMC, Vietnam, 1967-68 In March 2025, I had the rare privilege of visiting the island of Iwo Jima with my brother for...
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of journalists covered the conflict, filing dispatches and photographs that shaped how Americans understood the war. Among them were a...
The Veterans Breakfast Club mourns the passing of Major General William M. Matz, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.), a soldier who emerged from childhood paralysis to...
By Rich Thurmond No two men fought the same Vietnam War. Each Marine, Soldier, Sailor, or Airman carried his own war on his back, shaped...
By Todd DePastino Below is one of the toughest first-person homecoming stories I’ve ever read. And it doesn’t come from an abused Vietnam Veteran or...
By Todd DePastino On February 23, 1945, five days into the Battle of Iwo Jima, a patrol of U.S. Marines raised an American flag atop...
By John R. Terry “If you choose a fair fight, you chose the wrong fight.” The most favorable outcome in combat is simple to state...
An Iraqi woman bakes flatbread. (Public Domain) By Brennan Morton After graduating from the University of New Hampshire, Brennan Morton joined the Marine Corps and...
Leaf from Virgil’s Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid. (Walters Art Museum) By Dr. Joshua Cannon An Arabic cryptologic linguist with the Marine Corps from 2000 to...
The lithograph that hung in the McKinley family dining room. Combat artist and Army Lieutenant Rudolph Charles von Ripper made it from a sketch he...
The author in Saudi Arabia, 1990. (Stacey Rubin) By Stacey H. Rubin Stacey H. Rubin was an active-duty Army nurse from 1989-1992, stationed at Fort...
