Vietnam War

Petersen was a "pioneer not just for Marine Corps aviation but for [the] entire naval force."

Some soldiers referred to them as "McNamara's Morons."

Watson Baldwin, in the middle of the clearing, gazed skyward and spread opens his arms to guide the helicopter in to receive help from above.

"It is still hard to say goodbye to a unit that has so completely defined the experience of being a Marine."

A Marine recounts how one two-minute experience 54 years ago in the jungles of Vietnam changed his life forever.

'We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.'

An M16, letters to a girl, fear, pride, love. He's left some burdens behind in exchange for others.

“I said, ‘Chickie Donohue, what the hell are you doing here?’ He said, ‘I came to bring you a beer.'”

Surprisingly, this has actually happened in real life.

The Taliban insurgency is growing.

After his aircraft was hit by an enemy mortar round, John Levitow saved his entire aircrew from certain death.

"What a pointless waste of a remarkable young man’s life—and in a war with no light at the end of the tunnel."

"Sims made the greatest sacrifice a soldier can make … and no mark of tribute can be too great.”

He resigned from Congress in 2005 after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

"SGM Macias exemplified the Special Forces ethos."

I’m no historian, but I suspect that if future American history books touch on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars at all, they will be similarly summed up as a “period of readjustment” that spanned multiple generations.

Miller’s take on Ford’s role in the war’s end bears no resemblance to reality.

Tom Hardy will embrace his third major military role after Black Hawk Down and Dunkirk as he leads an ensemble cast in 'The Things They Carried', a new movie based on Pultizer Prize-finalist Tim O'Brien's short story collection of the same name about his experiences during Vietnam

"Militarism in America is in full bloom and promises a future of vigorous self-pollination."

“It was a 20th-century version of the Wild West frontier fortress."

Air Force veteran Anthony Luton has seen a lot of things in life, good and bad. Now he wants to use his experience to help others like him

“Tom would say, ‘I’m going to be a helicopter pilot someday,’ and that’s exactly what he did."

“If you don’t bear witness, then history repeats itself.”

Petersen flew more than 350 combat missions and more than 4,000 military aircraft hours during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.