The Congressional Medal of Honor aims to honor only the bravest and most selfless acts in combat. Just 268 were awarded to the 2.7 million who served in the Armed Forces in Vietnam. John Gary Gertsch is one of them. Gertsch was born in September 1944. A Times Mirror and Observer article ...

When one hears the phrase “combat mission,” it’s reasonable to assume that the most dangerous element of such a sortie is the combat piece, the actual time over enemy airspace. For Maj. Fred W. “Ted” Shattuck, Jr., that turned out to be anything but the case. A comment from a ...

Three young men from Warren County were killed in Vietnam within three weeks of each other in January and early February 1969. Each was 20 or 21 years old. “Sgt. Bill Olson, 21, United States Army... has been reported killed in action, according to word the family has received from the ...

If you were one of the 2.7 million men who served in Vietnam, there was a just over two percent chance you would be one of the 58,220 that died over there. There were about 120 students in the Eisenhower Class of 1965. If we assume that the gender mix was roughly 50/50, then your odds of ...

The first American soldiers arrived in 1965, supplementing American advisors that had been in the country for years. It would be eight years before the last American soldier would leave. By early 1967, editors with the Warren Times Mirror and Observer realized in some small way what the ...

If you’ve ever gone to an event of any kind at War Memorial Field, you’ve seen their names. I’ve done it dozens of times and never taken notice — until a few weeks ago. Maybe it stood out because I had just written about the Pentagon Papers, which revealed that the government ...