According to the federal government, an estimated 300,000 Vietnam veterans have died from the dangers of Agent Orange. The ...

Pete Celentano of Jackson and Michael Vaccaro of Middletown braved danger and earned medals in Vietnam, but lost paperwork left them unrecognized.

Friends and family of a Vietnam veteran symbolically honored him with a Purple Heart medal he never received 55 years ago while recovering in Japan. Many know Lester F. Wray III as “Ripper” Wray or ...

MAKAWAO — Fifty years after being hit by rocket-propelled grenade fragments in the Vietnam War, the late Capt. Lawrence “Larry” R. Oliveira of Nahiku finally received his Purple Heart ...

A Vietnam combat veteran who served three tours was given a final salute after lunge disease from Agent Orange took his life at age 78. FOX 10's Kenzie Beach has more.

After more than four decades, and the efforts of Rep. Virginia Foxx and local veteran’s organizations, Jim Judson was ...

The Purple Heart is awarded to military members who are injured and killed in combat, through an act of terrorism or by friendly fire. It acknowledges the physical sacrifice of service to the nation.

Pete Celentano was in a foxhole when an artillery shell killed three fellow soldiers and shrapnel tore through his flesh. Michael Vaccaro trained villages to defend themselves against the Viet ...

Jerry Deible of Murrysville can remember standing on the ground at a Vietnam firebase in the early 1970s, staring up at a ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Monday quietly restored a web page it had removed about Army Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a Black man who earned the Medal of Honor for his leadership during the ...