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“It’s great that the town of Pittsfield did this because he’s been gone for 57 years, and he died for his country,” said ...
Vietnam War soldiers used their helmets as canvases—covering them in graffiti, slogans, and messages that revealed their thoughts, fears, and rebellion. Stock market plummets in reaction to ...
It was called “The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War.” “It was a three ... be recognized because of the octopus on my helmet. It was just a fluke that I was there ...
HAWTHORNE — The doodles of a musing Marine stained ... An in South Vietnam on Flag Day in 1966. He was 21, and the first of 11 servicemen from the borough to die in the war.
Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...
For nearly 20 years, the Vietnam War waged on, taking the lives of an estimated 58,200 American soldiers with it. Back home in the United States, more than 8000 miles away, much of the battle ...
HAWTHORNE, N.J.-- This Memorial Day, a New Jersey town is remembering a Vietnam War Marine who was killed at ... States," Frank Dutches said of Billy's helmet, which he was wearing the day he ...
Villegas, a Gulf War Marine veteran ... Joe Ramírez holds his helmet and a photo of himself serving in Vietnam at VFW Armed Forces Post 8322 in Montclare.
It was the first Marine landing in a combat zone since the Korean War. Communist China and North Vietnam immediately protested the amphibious operation as another American step to "widen the war ...
The Vietnam War was ending ... Potratz, 71, said the Marine guards hold a reunion every five years, and he has seen how the war stayed with them long after they got home. Some have been dogged ...
To learn more about the Marines who served during the final days of the war in Vietnam, visit the Fall of Saigon Marines Association page and read “Last Men Out” by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
MANITOWOC, Wisconsin (WGBA) — The helmet worn by a Wisconsin man when he was killed during the Vietnam War is now back home. When Jeffrey Rupp died in 1969, his helmet never made its way back home.