When Bob Hope gave a show at Lai Khe, Vietnam, at Christmas time in 1969, a young military photographer named Bill Geist was in the audience. On May 25, 2003, as a correspondent for CBS News Sunday ...
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old ...
In the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 31, 1968, as the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong unleashed the Tet Offensive against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces and their allies, Lou Pumphrey was a 25-year-old ...
With wars continuing in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of military veterans grows every Veterans Day. Commentator Forrest Brandt served in an earlier conflict — he was with the 1st Infantry Division ...