Longtime Bakersfield resident and U.S. Marine combat veteran Charlie Wilmot served in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. Nearly 60 years later, Wilmot is still serving — as a volunteer with ...

When Jerry Ferris was a senior at Withrow High School in 1967, he convinced five of his classmates to enlist with him in the U.S. Marines. The six of them went through Boot Camp together, were flown ...

Joseph Henry Suina grew up in a Native American community in the 1940s, buried by his own people’s trauma while not yet realizing the baggage he carried. Suina, 81, is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- As Veterans Day approaches on Tuesday, Nov. 11, it serves as a day to celebrate and honor those who have served our country. In St. Joseph, resides Marine Veteran Don Crigger ...

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...

Jesse Bulldog walked the length of a traveling memorial dedicated to the 58,000 servicemembers who died during the Vietnam War. At each of the 141 panels, he stopped and wafted sage ash in a warrior ...

Late Marine Corps veteran, Lance Cpl. Charles Robert Olson, was honored with a military banner on Friday morning. Olson, originally from Wheeling Island, was killed in action on Jan. 3, 1970, and was ...

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...