Tag: Vietnam

When we laid my brother Michael Crescenz to rest after he was killed in Vietnam in 1968, I thought that was the end of the story. It wasn’t, thanks to the local veteran community.

U.S. Army veteran Charles W. Hanger, a combat medic who served in the Vietnam War and is a resident of Palm Coast, was recognized on Veterans Day …

The Vietnam veteran wrote back to Kathleen Ryan, who framed the letter and cherished it for 51 years, wondering if Dominic Cutalo survived the war.

Amityville Village dedicated a plaque to Edward Asip, the village’s only resident to be killed in the Vietnam War. NewsdayTV’s Steve Langford reports.

Retired Lt. Colonel Jack Kelley was a pilot in Vietnam serving in the Air Force. He flew and flew 160 combat missions. 100 over north Vietnam, and 60 over Southeast Asia. He was shot down twice and …

Father Michael Quealy, the first military chaplain killed in action in Vietnam, was honored on the day of his death in the Reading of the Names ceremony.

“I knew if I were still alive on March 5, 1968, I could get on the plane in Da Nang we used to call the ‘Freedom Bird.’ I could fly away and forget the whole thing. It turned out not to be quite so …

November 10, 2022 marks 55 years since Colonel Kelly Francis Cook went missing in action while serving the Air Force in Vietnam. A native of Keene, Kentucky, Colonel Cook was born in 1922, graduating …

For decades, Eddie Nelson tried to ignore the PTSD he suffered as a result of his service in Vietnam. Now, years after confronting his own trauma, the Omaha man helps …

Maj. Gen. Dr. Sharon Bannister talks about why she volunteers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.