Retired Marine Corps Col. John W. Ripley, a Vietnam War hero who was awarded the Navy Cross for risking his life to blow up a bridge and halting the advancement of North Vietnamese troops and tanks ...

This is the powerful, true story of a Navy Corpsman who displayed extraordinary courage in Vietnam. The veteran shares his ...

John W. Ripley, 69, a highly decorated Marine Corps officer and demolitions expert during the Vietnam War whose destruction of a strategic bridge was credited with helping repel a Communist-led ...

I applaud the local veterans who were highlighted in the story about local Vietnam veterans (“Shock and awfulness,” Herald, May 3.) Each of them served honorably, and their stories were well worth ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...

(NEXSTAR) — This year marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. For many who fought in Vietnam, the years since have been spent coping with physical pain and PTSD. Their common bond helps get them ...