Christmas 1967, Chu Lai, Vietnam — In mid-December, 1967, at the age of 20, and trained as an artillery surveyor in the U.S. Army, I found myself assigned to a 155mm Howitzer (BN) Battalion HQ near ...

Taoiseach Jack Lynch begged Irish emigrants living in Britain not to return home for Christmas in 1967. Lynch's 1967 appeal appears tame when compared to 2020, when international borders were largely ...

The gunnery sergeant said, “There is no place, and no time, I would rather be than here and now.” By the living standards I had come to expect in Vietnam this was pretty good, but it was not as good ...

Stewardess Anne Sweeney, a native of East Greenwich, readied herself for that flight. R&R trips tested the emotional capacity of the flight crews. Outbound from Vietnam, soldiers cheered when the ...