Vietnamese civilians killed by US Army soldiers during pursuit of Vietcong militia, as per order of Lieut. Wm. Calley Jr., March 16, 1968, in My Lai, South Vietnam.

A trip with the 11th Armored Cavalry in 1969 brings back images of the war from that year that have never been seen before. In his strong new book, James Stanish takes readers through the heart of the ...

Young people headed for a distant war The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to 1975. For twenty years the US government sent thousands of young people to fight in the war, forcibly recruited.

America was involved in combat operations in Vietnam from 1964 to 1973, one of the nation’s longest wars. By the war’s end, 58,000 American soldiers had perished.

Afterward, the crowd gave the Class of 1968 a standing ovation. Hindenach said the fact that this finally came together gave him chills. "I think about Vietnam every day. Every day.

Que Son Valley, Vietnam, Jan. 20, 1968: An unidentified service member catches up on his reading as he awaits transport back to Landing Zone Ross. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...

Guridy teaches a class about the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War that took place on Columbia's campus. He teaches in one of the buildings that students occupied in 1968 – Fayerweather Hall.

It was a major driving factor that pushed President Lyndon Johnson to not seek re-election in 1968, and the war generated some of the biggest protests the U.S. had seen to that point.

In 1968, there were half a million U.S. troops fighting in Southeast Asia. That year, close to 17,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam, and more than 87,000 were wounded.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. On what was happening at Columbia in 1968: It's hard to conjure up what that moment was for our country. It was a moment of real crisis.