Scottsdale Public Library debuted its latest exhibit, the Vietnam Experience, to the public today.

WESTMINSTER, CALIF. - It was not so long ago that people who advocated trade with Vietnam faced reprisals and denunciation by staunch anti-communists in this enclave that’s home to the nation’s largest Vietnamese immigrant community.

A Surprise mother who lost one of her sons to enemy gunfire while serving in Iraq is helping to carry through on his message of goodwill to others. Marc Lee, who on Aug. 2, 2006, was the first Navy Seal to be killed by enemy forces during the war in Iraq, sent home a letter to loved ones that wound up striking a nerve with his mother, Debbie.

This is by way of removing the ice pick from Bill Laurie’s eye.

They were young soldiers once — and friends ever since. Tom Brooks, a Vietnam War veteran, organized a gathering of men he knew from the 1st Air Cavalry Division during the late 1960s.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday.

Scottsdale’s Civic Center Library debuted its latest exhibit, The Vietnam Experience, to the public this week.

HANOI, Vietnam - President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Instead of stuffing themselves with turkey and all the fixings, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving cruising around Vietnam's largest city on a motorbike.

A man who was part of the Vietnam War experience as a protester returned Thursday night to Scottsdale, the city where he had lived under an assumed name for nearly 30 years because he was hiding from a crime he said he never committed.

Thirty-four years after a Viet Cong bullet ended Art Lucero's job as a U.S. Navy field medic, the Mesa man is still coping.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a multifaceted, multidimensional and multitalented man. However, because so many fail to study the great works written about African American people, we often find ourselves the victim of 30-secons sound bites on the six o'clock news where excerpts of his omnipresent "I Have A Dream" speech are played over and over again.

Sun Citian Jerry McNelly can remember being screamed at, ridiculed and spit upon in the Seattle/Tacoma International Airport awaiting to fly home to the Bay Area after serving in the Vietnam War. It was 1969 and the Vietnam War – and the same harsh treatment soldiers received when they arrived back home – would last another six years.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

August 30, 2004

It’s hard to figure out Mitt Romney.

The crew frantically radioed news of the crash. Under heavy attack in the enemy-controlled city of Hue, Vietnam, hope waned for the downed helicopter’s passengers and crew.

David Mills remembers little of his captivity during the Korean War. Most of the horrific experience blends together, he said. But a couple of things stand out: Living in a cramped dungeon without enough room to stand or fully extend his legs.