War is hell, and great songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Alice's Restaurant" bring home that message more successfully than the rest.
In the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, millions of unexploded bombs still litter Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. As a result, tens of thousands of civilians have died from them. From WHYY's The ...
The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...
Richard Heimes served two tours in the Vietnam War. According to Bobby Joe Holman, a recording artist who took a local ...
Record floods submerged streets in several communities in Vietnam on Wednesday, with at least eight people killed this week, the government said. Tens of thousands were left stuck at home or fleeing ...
If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...
As enemy forces closed in on South Vietnam, a handful of C-123s and C-130s launched a desperate evacuation under heavy fire. Pilots flew through smoke, shrapnel, and collapsing runways to save more ...
For the war in Vietnam, there’s arguably no more important event than the Tet Offensive. In 1968, the Vietnamese celebrated Tet, or The Festival of the First Day, on January 30. It was also the day ...
ATHENS, Ala. (WHNT) — A thread woven throughout Ronnie Marks’ life is service: being the mayor of Athens, teaching at West Limestone, and helping families at the Department of Human Resources. “As I ...
A memorial to Vietnam War veterans who became ill or died after exposure to the infamous herbicide Agent Orange will be dedicated this month in Des Plaines. The freestanding, granite memorial was ...
Jesse Bulldog walked the length of a traveling memorial dedicated to the 58,000 servicemembers who died during the Vietnam War. At each of the 141 panels, he stopped and wafted sage ash in a warrior ...