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Writing program helps traumatized veterans heal

By KATHY ANEY - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, JULY 1 - In this June 22, 2017 photo, Robert Martin holds a picture of himself at his home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, holding 2-month-old Roberta Sunday after finding her in a bunker in Vietnam. Martin's lone contact with Roberta Sunday was that one day in August 1970. While he's thought about her a lot over the past 47 years, he recently decided he'd like to re-connect with her. He said finding Sunday would bring something positive to his war experience. (Loren Benoit/Coeur D'Alene Press via AP)

Vietnam War veteran searches for orphan he rescued in 1970

By BRIAN WALKER - Associated Press

After being separated during Vietnam War, family reunites

By TESS NOVOTNY - Associated Press

EXCHANGE: Vietnam vet carries PTSD in silence for 35 years

By MATT DUTTON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc shake hands during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump discusses trade deficit with visiting Vietnam leader

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will meet President Trump at the White House on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Vietnam prime minister, to meet Donald Trump at White House

By James Borton and Sandra Erwin — Special to The Washington Times

Team searches for photo of Arizona man who died in Vietnam

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Illustration on Memorial Day by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

Memorial Day should be reminder of veterans’ needed care

By Mark Lucas

A supporter waves an American Flag as a motorist participating in Rolling Thunder rides by on Constitution Ave. (Laura Kelly/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

Rolling Thunder takes place in D.C. despite rains

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Ken Burns, from left, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Lynn Novick speak at PBS' "The Vietnam War" panel at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

National Memorial Day Parade grand marshals Ken Burn, Lynn Novick discuss Vietnam War documentary

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Jerry Kramer hopes honor flight trip helps Vietnam veterans

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President Nixon tells a White House news conference that he will not allow his legal counsel, John Dean to testify on Capitol Hill in the Watergate investigation and challenged the Senate to test him in the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

EDITORIAL: ‘Peace is the right memorial’

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

POW/MIA priorities: Accountability for the missing, suicide prevention

By Rolling Thunder Inc.

The Trump administration: A new opportunity?

By Ann Mills-Griffiths and Richard T. Childress

In this November 2014 photo, Lawrence J. Reilly Sr., a U.S. Navy veteran of World War ll and the Vietnam War, sits in the living room of his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He and his 20-year-old son Lawrence J. Reilly Jr. were serving together on U.S. Navy destroyer Frank E. Evans when the ship was cut in half in a collision with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne of the Royal Australian Navy during joint maneuvers in the South China Sea. Seventy-four sailors died but the Pentagon has rejected a longstanding request from survivors of the disaster to add the names of their fallen comrades to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., saying the accident occurred outside the Vietnam combat zone. (Mike Greenlar/Syracuse Post-Standard via AP)

US refuses to add sailors’ names to Vietnam Memorial

By CHRIS CAROLA - Associated Press

Sophia veteran receives Purple Heart

By JORDAN NELSON - Associated Press

A wall, a veteran and the story of a fallen Vietnam War Hero

By RAY DUCKLER - Associated Press

‘This soldier’s daughter is the daughter of a hero’

By KAREN NELSON - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 19, 2017 photo, Iraq war veteran Colt Romberger rides his horse, Gus, across a meadow in Santa Clarita, Calif. Romberger is training his horse for a ride from the Pacific Ocean to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington in hopes to raise money for veterans causes and tell the public about the devastating effects Agent Orange has had on the bodies of now-aging veterans of the Vietnam War. His father, a Vietnam War veteran, died of a brain disease associated with Agent Orange. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Horseman rides across US to bring attention to Agent Orange

By JOHN ROGERS - Associated Press

James Parker (right) received the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit from CIA Director William Colby in 1975. This photograph is signed: "To James Parker — with thanks and applause for a job well done in Vietnam. William Colby, 18 Dec. 75." (Photograph provided by James Parker)

James Parker, CIA’s last Vietnam evacuee, holds bitter memories of fateful day

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to the Washington Times