After Arvin's death, a local youth organization memorialized the war hero by naming it's Ypsilanti gymnasium after him. That ...

The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 ...

The best Vietnam War books from Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and others offer new insights and perspectives into the ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War.

For the United States, “The Vietnam War” was one battleground against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. To prevent communism from spreading, the US sent resources to establish the Republic of ...

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War remains a defining rupture in American history. Not only in terms of ...

While filming Civil War, Garland was introduced to Iraq war veteran Ray Mendoza, who’d been hired to make sure the film’s gunfight sequences looked as realistic as possible. In November 2006 ...

The veteran actor succumbed ... work to one or two films a year. His last picture was “Big Jack,” described by the studio as “the story of a lovable, pre-Civil War bandit.” ...

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's film — a real-time recreation of a 2006 battle —  had several key factors they wouldn’t compromise on, from the age of the actors to adding Hollywood flourishes: “I wasn ...

The film marks the directorial debut of Mendoza, an Iraq War veteran who met Garland while serving as a military advisor on the latter’s “Civil War.” On the set of that film, Garland was ...