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New York Times - Thu Nov 5, 5:14 pm ETFor everything from fermented duck eggs to flip-flops, head to this rambling market that’s laid out like an Arab souk and far less touristy than the Ben Thanh Market downtown.
For everything from fermented duck eggs to flip-flops, head to this rambling market that’s laid out like an Arab souk and far less touristy than the Ben Thanh Market downtown.
The Richland County community of Shelby hosted the welcome home Ohio's Vietnam veterans deserved, but never got.
JIM THORPE - More than 700 residents of Carbon County served in the U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam War. Thirteen of them didn't make it home. At least two of them passed away within the past month. All were honored Saturday morning at a ceremony h
Hanoi - The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae in central Vietnam has risen to 109, the country's Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control reported Friday. The authority said 16 people remained missing, and local media were reporting death ...
CARSON CITY -- Jeff Evans walked into the Department of Motor Vehicles office Monday carrying the faded papers in which the Army notified his mother that his father had been killed in an airplane crash in Vietnam in 1970.
The way service members are treated after they return home from overseas has changed drastically since the Vietnam War era, according to some local veterans.
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HANOI, Vietnam -- The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on -- for three nights and two days.
U.S. Army Sgt. Jack Pickard recalls the animosity he perceived when he stepped back onto U.S. soil after his tour of duty during the Vietnam War. But back home in Traverse City, residents made returning veterans feel "fully welcome," Pickard said.
Bill Gay’s brother, Ben, pins a lieutenant bar on his lapel at a Marine commissioning ceremony in April 1967. Five months later, Bill Gay would be leading troops in combat in Quang Tri province, Vietnam. Photos courtesy of Bill Gay Marlinton native Bill Gay volunteered to become a Marine officer in 1967 and, eight months later, commanded Marines in a deadly cauldron of Vietnam combat. In ...
LONDON (Dow Jones)--World 2009-10 coffee production may fall below 2008-09's estimated output of 128.1 million 60-kilogram bags, due to adverse weather in Brazil and Vietnam, the International Coffee Organization said Monday.
Earl and Evelyn Marit finds Earl Marit’s brother’s name on a traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on Friday following a memorial service at Welk Theatre.
Gulf War veteran Philip Edds, of Branson, left, talks with Vietnam Marine veteran John Porter. Phil Surratt | Branson Tri-Lakes News As the war in the Middle East continues, there are some veterans coming back to the United States trying to fit into a society that has changed since they departed.
VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS and color guard were among the many veterans of several generations honored by the hundreds of people lining Grand Avenue at the Veterans Day Parade held Saturday under sunny skies.
Two Veteran's Day services will be held Wednesday in Marshall County. Col. (Ret.) Andrew R. Finlayson of Madison will be the guest speaker at both. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War and an expert on counter terrorism.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A 69-year-old watchman in Vietnam has been rescued after surviving three nights and two days clinging to a tree to avoid a flash flood sparked by Tropical Storm Mirinae.