JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — "Thanks for your service. Never. Ever," Klaus Maurer said about his return to the United States after serving in Vietnam in the United States Marines. He's a Purple Heart ...

It was 1966 in Santa Cruz, a popular hot spot for peace-loving, free-spirited hippies to congregate. John Foster was 17 and had just "barely" graduated from high school. "There were 300 in my class ...

For quite some time, before we even knew about Vietnam, we dealt with the Cold War — the nuclear stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted more than 40 years (about 1947-91) ...

In the spring of 1966 Steve Slavin joined a pickup basketball game on a playground in Greenwich Village. Who should show up but Bernie Sanders, his old friend and roommate from Brooklyn College. He ...

One legacy of the Vietnam War was the “hippie” movement, a type of U.S. counter-culture. Many Vietnam protesters — including returning veterans — were adopting a look that perhaps evolved from the ...