Vietnam veteran and former Suffolk Judge John J. Toomey Jr. served as the keynote speaker and reflected on the soldiers he served alongside in the Army in his roles as a rifleman, machine-gunner ...

A machine gun trained on the entrance kept them trapped. An enemy soldier pushed his flamethrower through the holes and shot, trying to burn them out, setting the building on fire.

In 1970, Peggy Kelly was a member of the “Donut Dollies,” Red Cross volunteers who boosted morale among U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War. One day she traveled by helicopter to a firebase ...

FILE- Infantryman points out a suspicious shadow in a tree to his machine gunner as they move on patrol near the Cambodian Border west of Pleiku in Vietnam on Nov. 26, 1966.

Helicopter crews of the Vietnam War known as “Dustoff” crews will be the latest military group to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, which honors the estimated 3,000 pilots, medics, and ...