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From right: Abdul, Mohammed and family members. (Mikael Cook) By Mikael Cook Over the last two weeks of August 2021, as the Taliban completed its...
The Nguyen family in Saigon, March, 1975. Eva (Truc) is held by her father. (Eva Nguyen Whitfield) by Jason Nulton and Eva Nguyen Whitfield If...
The Final Days of South Vietnam, March-April 1975. (USA) by Todd DePastino In 1973, after the ceasefire of January 27 and the departure of the...
Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, Commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, boards a C-17 as the last American service member to leave Afghanistan. (U.S....
Joe Boscia with his South Vietnamese counterparts, 1968. (Joe Boscia) Joseph Boscia, Captain, US Army, Vietnam 1968-69 I was thunderstruck on Wednesday, April 30, 1975,...
President Ford meets with Graham Martin, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand, and Secretary of State...
HENDERSONVILLE – On March 28, 2025, Lt. Col. Dr. Edwin (Ed Cotty) Cottrell (1922–2025) went to join his beloved wife Mildred (Millie) in heaven. He...
Written by Todd DePastino On April 30, 2025 — the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War — a powerful new documentary will...
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, of the Rough Riders. From Harper’s Pictorial History of the War with Spain, Vol. II, published by Harper and Brothers in 1899....
Written by Todd DePastino Jack Reid of the Veterans Group of Pine Hills in Plymouth, Massachusetts, recently shared with us the World War II journal...
Written by Todd DePastino Manchu: A Brotherhood of Sacrifice is a new documentary film that chronicles the Vietnam War through the eyes of the U.S....
Image via Pexels Written by Sidney Allen of CiviliansforVets.org Leaving military service often marks the beginning of a new journey. For many veterans, that journey...
