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The new Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and Crewmember Monument stand in Section 35 of Arlington National Cemetery, feet from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Carlo Mu&#241;oz/The Washington Times. By Carlo Munoz The Washington Times

Vietnam War helicopter pilots get memorial in Arlington National Cemetery

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Catfish are released into a pond at a Little Rock, Ark. park. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Vietnam calls U.S. catfish policy unfair trade practices

By James Varney - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, Robert Caro attends the East Hampton Library's 13th Annual Authors Night Benefit in East Hampton, N.Y. Caro offered his observations on the 1960s in a speech Saturday, April 15, 2018, at the New-York Historical Society, weaving events in Lyndon Johnson’s presidency with a pair of songs he said demonstrated the decade’s disillusionment and hopes for change. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)

Robert Caro talks Lyndon Johnson, music and the 1960s

By BY HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with governors and lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump orders aides to pursue reopening of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Federal fisheries observer Steve Dysart talks to The Associated Press on Friday, March 30, 2018 in Honolulu. Dysart, who works for a company that contracts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was aboard the commercial fishing vessel Princess Hawaii when it sank off Hawaii's Big Island on March 25, 2018. The observer and seven others, an American captain and six foreign fishermen, were rescued from their life raft about 12 hours after the boat sank. (AP Photo/Sophia Yan)

Crewman credited with saving lives as fishing boat sank

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

Vietnamese refugee creates monument for veterans

By STEPH SOLIS - Associated Press

Governor declares 1st Vietnam War Veterans Day in S Carolina

By CHRISTINA L. MYERS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 14, 2018, photo, foot prints of villagers and U.S soldiers' combat boots are reconstructed in My Lai memorial site in Son My, Vietnam. On March 16, 1968, U.S soldiers of Charlie Company, sent on what they were told was a mission to confront a crack outfit of their Vietcong enemies, met no resistance, but over the course of three to four hours killed 504 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly, in My Lai and a neighboring community. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

50 years ago, the My Lai massacre shamed the US military

By TRAN VAN MINH and GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Army searches for family of Vietnam veteran from Michigan

Associated Press

A Vietnamese passenger boat sails past U.S aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson as it docks in Danang bay, Vietnam on Monday, March 5, 2018. For the first time since the Vietnam War, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster both countries' efforts to stem expansionism by China in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/ Hau Dinh)

Paper notes China’s ‘unhappiness’ over US Navy Vietnam visit

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

USS Carl Vinson is anchored at Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Monday, March 5, 2018. For the first time since the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster both countries' efforts to stem expansionism by China in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)

U.S. Navy carrier’s visit to Vietnam puts China on notice

By Tran Van Minh - Associated Press

FILE - This April 1968 file photo shows the first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guiding a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, April 1968. Two soldiers in the photo, Dallas Brown, bottom, and Tim Wintenburg, far right, recently reunited to talk to The Associated Press about the iconic photo and the war. (AP Photo/Art Greenspon, File)

Burnished in history: How an AP photo showed the cost of war

By DYLAN LOVAN - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Our Year of War’ by Daniel P. Bolger

In this 1965 photo, AP correspondent Peter Arnett holds a captured Chinese flamethrower, in Vietnam. As the country celebrated Lunar New Year after midnight on Jan. 31, 1968, communist forces launched a wave of surprise attacks that became known as the Tet Offensive and would change the course of the Vietnam War. The AP’s Peter Arnett reported on the Vietnam War from 1962 until its end in 1975. On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the AP is publishing this edited extract from his book “We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet and the Fall of LBJ.” (AP Photo)

AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Days after these U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh carried a wounded comrade to be evacuated, North Vietnamese troops blocked a rescue platoon. (Associated Press/File)

Tet Offensive in Vietnam 50 years old

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Our Year of War’ by Daniel P. Bolger

By Philip Kopper

In this Jan. 12, 2018 photo, Viet Nam veteran and multimedia artist Charles Payne works on a wood carving in his home in Sterling, Ill. It's the latter two aspects of his life, the artistry and the spirituality, that have helped Payne cope the past 50 years with the former. &quot;I wasn't wounded by bullets, but by Agent Orange,&quot; Payne said. &quot;And then here I am. Still plugging away. My eyes are deteriorating, but my spirit isn't.&quot; The Vietnam veteran continues to work despite having health concerns from Agent Orange. (Alex T. Paschal/The Daily Gazette via AP)

Vietnam vet dealing with war’s after-effects with his art

By ANDREA MILLS - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, shakes hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich, right, before reviewing and honor guard in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. Mattis is on a two-day visit to Vietnam to boost military ties between the two countries. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)

U.S. likely to send 1st aircraft carrier since war to Vietnam

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Russian defense minister visits Vietnam to boost ties

Associated Press

Defense Secretary James Mattis speaks about the National Defense Review, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in Washington. China's expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are among the U.S. military's top national security priorities, the Pentagon said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

James Mattis seeks closer ties 50 years after key Vietnam battles

By Robert Burns - Associated Press