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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmed Sen. John Kerry as the next secretary of state. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel is set to become the next secretary of defense. Critics and supporters of the men point to their service in Vietnam as a critical qualification.

The Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration, is awarded to service members who display exceptional valor in combat.

Werner Trei, 71, is in hospice care in Colorado. He was given numerous awards for helping save 100 Vietnamese civilians when he was a U.S. Army Ranger. Before he dies, he'd like to be a U.S. citizen.

As PBS stations across the country continue airing the ten-park, 18-hour documentary series The Vietnam War, veterans advocates across the nation are…

This month PBS stations across the country are in the midsts of airing The Vietnam War, a ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns…

Punta Gorda is now home to a new permanent replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Nearly 1,000 people, many of them Vietnam Veterans, attended the…

Veterans Day is set aside for us to remember those who served in the Armed Forces of the United States. But for many of those who served in our wars,…

The U.S. Census shows Florida is home to nearly half a million Vietnam veterans. The VA’s health clinic in Cape Coral alone served 37,000 of them last…

The camaraderie that veterans talk about used to be true in Congress too — partly because many members had served in the military. But today's Congress has very few veterans in its ranks, about 20 percent, compared with more than three-quarters in the post-Vietnam era. What does that number mean politically.

In Vietnam, U.S. war veterans and Jan Scruggs' Project Renew help clear the countryside of hidden dangers: land mines, unexploded bombs and mortars. The explosives, left over from the U.S. war that ended 30 years ago, kill and maim hundreds each year.