In the past, the U.S. military informed families about the deaths of service members with a telegram. Julie Moore, whose ...

I made a business trip to Vietnam. This was my second visit, with the first having been in 2000. Vietnam was preparing for ...

I made a business trip to Vietnam. This was my second visit, with the first having been in 2000. Vietnam was preparing for ...

(KPLC) - A ceremony was held Saturday morning at Jennings’s First Baptist Church to honor a Southwest Louisiana soldier who was killed in action. Albert “Billy” Sonnier of Elton was an infantryman ...

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

Hal Moore and his wife, Julia Compton Moore ... which was chronicled in the book “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young” and the 2002 movie “We Were Soldiers.” It’s not merely that ...

Hal Moore was best-known for leading a battalion of troops in the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, an ordeal detailed in the book “We Were Soldiers Once… and Young” and a 2002 movie ...

(KPLC) - A ceremony was held Saturday morning at Jennings’s First Baptist Church to honor a Southwest Louisiana soldier who was ... to Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore’s 450-man force at the ...

Hal Moore: If you were to ask me ... It was just so realistic. The scene where the soldiers are burning human feces, I can still smell how that smelled. We used to burn that human waste with diesel. I ...

Hal Moore (Mel Gibson, "Braveheart") led the men ... After the war, the two would co-write "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young," the book on which this 2002 movie is based.