Gahanna's Columbus Academy will host Kim Phuc, called the poster child of the Vietnam War and an icon of the cry for peace, during a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 25 in Academy's Schoedinger ...

April marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, and the wounds of the Vietnam War remain open ‒ not just for Americans who fought there, but also for those who lost everything when the war ended in the ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (KABC) -- It's April 30, 1975 and Saigon, the capital of Vietnam, is on the verge of falling into the hands of the North Vietnamese. Frantic images show thousands of ...

WASHINGTON — Dozens of Vietnam veterans and their supporters gathered Thursday afternoon at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which marked the ...

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly ...

HO CHI MINH CITY — Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and ...

For Americans, Saigon is both a place and a symbol, a welter of impressions and a locus of deep feeling. Between 1955, when President Dwight Eisenhower sent the first U.S. military advisors to counter ...