It was 1971 and I was a military policeman in Da Nang, Vietnam. It was Christmas Day, and I was dog tired having just worked 12 hours, pulling guard duty all night. I stumbled back to my “hooch” and ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Army Sgt. Timothy J. Jacobsen will finally be laid to rest today in the small Northern California town of Ferndale, his remains placed in the empty grave that has been marked by his ...

SUDBURY — It's almost been 50 years since a band of about 200 young, fatigue-clad veterans began a three-day trek from Concord to Boston that resulted in the largest mass arrest in state history.

Daddis is the USS Midway chair in Modern U.S. Military History at San Diego State University and author of “Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines.” He lives in Kensington.

Letters from home helped Army Sgt. Dominic Cutalo get through brutal days of medevacking bloodied and broken soldiers off the battlefields of Vietnam. More than five decades later, the Huntington ...