Nine years later, his son, Richard Fitzgibbon III, a Marine lance corporal, was killed on Sept. 7, 1965, in combat near Quang Tin. He was a 1962 graduate of Weymouth High School.

Of the 58,220 U.S. military service members who died in Vietnam, more than 1,300 were from Massachusetts. These are the stories of the men who were among the first and last to die on Vietnam soil.

The United States recently marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, which lead to the death of more than 58,000 Americans.. The first American death in the nearly two-decades ...

Projects like “Turning Point: The Vietnam War” aren’t rebukes of Burns’ effort, however. They’re reminders that those of us who were raised on his documentary series — people like me ...

The Vietnam War forced a reckoning in the U.S. Army when I served, and the military is undergoing a similar one now. By Chris Tomlinson , Columnist April 29, 2025 ...

At the end of the 1960s, Gallup found “significantly more opposition to President Richard Nixon’s Vietnam policies” among students at public and private colleges than in “a parallel survey ...

The images changed how the world saw Vietnam, but especially how Americans saw their country, soldiers and the war itself, which ended 50 years ago this month.