This year's U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is a 53-foot-tall red fir from the Carson Ranger District in Nevada. Dubbed Silver ...

Sandra van Bebber traded comfort for courage, answering the call to serve in the Vietnam War when her country needed her.

The Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of the military in law enforcement. The War Powers Resolution, passed to limit ...

There are photographs from the Vietnam War era that have become as iconic as the flag-raising on Iwo Jima or the inferno ...

More than 100 West Texas veterans recently embarked on an all-expense-paid, three-day trip to Washington, D.C., to visit the ...

Heavy rain, severe flooding and landslides in Vietnam have killed at least 90 people in the last week, authorities said ...

Kevin Cullen shares the story of one Boston veteran who spent decades finding peace after a devastating experience in Vietnam ...

Former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, a POW during the Vietnam War known for the iconic "Burst of Joy" photo reuniting him with his family, has died in California. He was 92. The image, ...

Think you know U.S. history? These 15 “facts” you learned in school are completely wrong and the truth is even more surprising.

Kathy Shore was 21 and unprepared for the wounds she'd care for at the 3rd Field Hospital. 'We saved a lot of lives,” the South Florida resident says.

Perhaps historical amnesia is not such a bad thing, despite George Santayana’s warning in 1905’s “The Life of Reason” that those who “cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” One reason ...

BELTON – Vietnam veteran Mel Pierson served with a U.S. Navy Seabees battalion during the Vietnam war, headed back home to California after a total of 15 months on active duty, and became an alcoholic ...