40 Years Later 'Napalm Girl' Tells Her Story
TRANG BANG, Vietnam — In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from he...
TRANG BANG, Vietnam — In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from he...
Steve Peck | Posted 05.31.2012
Karl Marlantes opens up about his experiences serving as a Marine in Vietnam and returning to civilian life in his new book What It Is Like To Go To War.
Steven Kurlander | Posted 05.30.2012
Being anti-war does not mean that you still can't value the mission of the soldiers as the guardians of our liberties and our way of life-or their status as "heroes," particularly those who fought and died.
Rick Ayers | Posted 05.30.2012
Across the country this memorial day, in parks and at parades, before sporting events and at graduation ceremonies, the hypocrisy of men extolling the glories of warfare was on obscene display.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.29.2012
Today the country's flag will fly at half-staff throughout the State of Illinois to honor a hero from the Vietnam conflict -- George Duncan Macdonald.
Posted 05.29.2012
Though Jim Schweickert never learned the name of the soldier who trusted him with his watch in Vietnam, he never gave up trying to return it. Schw...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.29.2012
The music of the Beatles remains with us still, a poignant reminder that we all have a part to play in bringing about a world dedicated to peace and love.
Pamela H. Long | Posted 05.28.2012
The men of my father's generation were stalwart, laconic men of few illusions. Most of them had served in Korea, and many had seen combat in Vietnam as well.
D. Robert Worley | Posted 05.28.2012
Memorial Day takes me back and helps put my personal and professional priorities where they properly belong. The name Michael Eugene Hoppers invariably appears front and center in my thoughts, but he represents many.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.28.2012
The Associated Press (AP) -- Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed fl...
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.27.2012
This weekend the United States celebrates Memorial Day. Sadly, for many Americans the holiday mostly marks the beginning of summer rather than a time to remember those who gave their lives in service to their country.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2012
"Big" Willie Robinson, founder and president of the International and National Brotherhood of Street Racers, died this past Saturday. He was 69.
Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2012
As we once again observe Memorial Day we remember and honor the more than one million American men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all our wars, including more than 6,800 from our two most recent wars -- and counting.
Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 05.28.2012
Every Memorial Day, I take out a scrapbook my grandmother made over 40 years ago. Each page is filled with photographs of young men I've never met. Under every face is the exhortation: WHERE IS HE? My uncle's face is on page three.
Doug Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012
On Memorial Day, I remember some of the most ardent and intense peace enthusiasts I've ever known: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Doug Bradley | Posted 05.18.2012
If ever there was a war defined and illuminated by photography, it was the war in Vietnam. And if ever there was a photographer who left his imprint on the unforgettable images of Vietnam, it was Horst Faas.
The Huffington Post | Molly O'Toole and Chris Spurlock | Posted 05.14.2012
A timeline of the history of women in the military highlights how official policy restrictions have lagged behind their service. Layer on the lives of...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.08.2012
It would be a colossal bit of hubris to suggest that Robert Caro needs any help from me in researching Lyndon Johnson's presidency from 1964-68, but I have two good stories about that period, and I'd like to get them on Huffington before the book comes out.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 05.08.2012
So in a few weeks when Memorial Day again rolls around, I'll raise a glass to my pen pal and say the words, "Semper Fi." And I'll be silently thanking the VVMF for its ongoing campaign to find and post photos of all who died in that conflict.
Steve Nelson | Posted 05.07.2012
Here we go again. Photos published several weeks ago (taken in 2010) showed U.S. soldiers displaying the corpses and body parts of alleged Afghan ins...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.04.2012
Kent State is America's Tiananmen Square. The photo of a young girl kneeling over the body of a dead student is etched on our collective retinas. But all these years later, it is still hard to comprehend. There is no resolution of this tragedy.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.04.2012
If there aren't enough musicians these days producing albums that will help Americans cope...we can always reach back into the vault.
Peter Van Buren | Posted 04.24.2012
When I faced a crisis of conscience, to tell what I knew because it needed to be told, coming to realize I was risking at the least my job if not jail, I remembered the Pentagon Papers from 1971 you risked the same and more to release.
Daniel N. Nelson | Posted 04.24.2012
What will today's veterans say about their multiple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan? How will they explain to their children and grandchildren, if they are able, why they or their friends sustained their grievous physical or mental injuries?
John A. Anderson | Posted 04.19.2012
For those who continue to wrestle with war injuries, post-traumatic stress syndrome and the lingering effects of an experience that they really didn't ask for, recognition is long overdue.
AP | MARGIE MASON | Posted 05.31.2012