It was used to defoliate vegetation on the periphery of the bases and other areas where U.S. forces operated during the war, thus making them easier to monitor. Particles of the substance seemed to ...

The annual affair has become more solemn for her personally since her father, Cpl. Michael Ponella, a Korean War veteran, died on Memorial Day in 2023. "These men and women, you can’t compare ...

Visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the anniversary of the fall of Saigon said they still felt sadness and fury. And some, at last, had a sense of closure.

I attended more than three dozen memorial services that deployment. I remember the names and faces of the dead. Memorial Day was no longer an abstraction. This year’s Memorial Day carries with it the ...