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.

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.

At six and a half hours, Turning Point: The Vietnam War, directed by Brian Knappenberger, who is probably best known for the critically beloved 2014 documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story ...

Watch the story of Col Otis Evans. During the Vietnam War, three million Americans deployed. Over 58,000 never made it home, and many more who returned were forever changed.

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 ...