Last week marked the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Readers discuss memories and the country today, which is still very divided over the civil war.

Two weeks before the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, Marine Corps Capt. James H. Warner was freed from North Vietnamese confinement after nearly 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war.

For years John Dow stashed hundreds of photos he had snapped as an American serviceman during the Vietnam War in cardboard boxes stowed in his basement. The transparencies and negatives that ...

This Lunar New Year, the Vietnamese will observe a different animal in the zodiac, the cat. The reasons are murky: could be linguistics or the landscape — or maybe cats are just plain friendlier.

Rochester resident Tom Novotne didn't talk about Vietnam for more than 30 years. Vietnam memories intense, 50 years later - Post Bulletin | Rochester Minnesota news, weather, sports ...

But the memories still remain for those who fought in it. "Personally, it's hard to believe it's been 50 years," city resident and Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 10 President Rick Milheim said.

Nahas, a Vietnam veteran from Sugar Land, spent six years and traveled 35,000 miles to compile photographs and stories about Vietnam memorials in all 50 states. He has published a book documenting ...

The sights are familiar, but my memories are discrete and factual, like history.There are other places, though, ... VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN VET REVISIS HIS MEMORIES Share this: ...

Vietnam and neighboring China share 10 of the zodiac calendar's 12 signs — the rat, tiger, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. But the Vietnamese honor the cat instead of ...

A cat meat restaurant, which reportedly served around 240 cat meat meals a month, and its associated slaughterhouse in Thai Binh, Vietnam, were shut down on Dec. 15.

The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March on the Pentagon, the 1968 Tet Offensive, May Day in 1971, and ...