Dan Gallagher was a farmboy from Charlo, in Mission Valley. His father, a Sinn Fein member and a World War I veteran, died when he was 15. He was the 13th of 13 kids. After his 18th birthday and the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The voices of 33 Vietnam veterans are in a digital collection of the South Dakota Historical Society. With a few clicks of a mouse on the historical society’s web page, the ...

In 1968, Dr. Carl Wirth was training to be a surgeon in upstate New York, but then came an abrupt shift from lab coats to ...

John E. Howard was in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1970, though he never set foot in Vietnam during the war. Nonetheless, he was very familiar with several aspects of the Vietnam War through his service ...

Keith Jensen’s service in Vietnam was cut short when he took a piece of shrapnel to his lungs during the so-called St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1970, a two-day firefight in a mountainous jungle ...

For author and freelance writer Nancy E. Lynch, her connection to the troops who served in the controversial Vietnam War is as strong as ever. Lynch is author of the acclaimed book, "Vietnam Mailbag, ...

Vietnam veteran Larry Rottmann admits he was an imperfect soldier in a historically flawed war. The former Army lieutenant, Bronze and Purple Star recipient, and former Missouri State University ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A new exhibit at the Indiana Historical Society uses archival material and new oral histories to tell the stories of Hoosiers who served in the Vietnam War. The exhibit, called ...