Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ORWIGSBURG — Dr. Gerald A. Ravitz saved the letters his friend, Dr. Gary Lee McMillan, sent from Vietnam. Ravitz’s roommate at ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — While serving our country in Vietnam in 1968, Army veteran Van Kolb chose a random envelope out of a bunch of pen pal letters sent to his post. The letter he picked was from a ...

(NEXSTAR) — It’s been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War but its impact on American families continues to be felt even to this day. Nowhere are the accounts of those who fought — including ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LEX 18) — No cell phones, no emails — to stay in touch with a loved one stationed overseas during the Vietnam War, families relied on snail mail. For soldiers, receiving mail might ...

The Vietnam War was so costly, so divisive, so fruitless. It's a war many Americans would rather forget — but the soldiers left an indelible record in their letters home, which have been collected by ...

AMSTERDAM — Gus Kappler assembled a collection of letters he penned as a young man off to war. He set as an accomplice his current-day perspective of what that youthful person was going through at the ...

DELMAR — Army First Lieutenant Dean Allen wrote a letter to his young wife, Joyce, describing fears over his Vietnam experience. This was a rare flash of raw emotion from the 27-year-old, 6-foot ...