His plane once erupted up into a ball of fire as it hit the runway following a bombing run into North Vietnam — forcing him and another serviceman to eject — but that didn’t stop John Menoski from returning to combat missions the following week. He also once flew 40 missions …

While much of the United States population had by 1971 turned against the war in Vietnam, as well as many of those who fought it, John Lavelle experienced a touching piece of support from his daughter’s fifth-grade class. They collected food and other necessities to support orphanages in the Asian …

Having had the opportunity to see a screening of a part of Ken Burns’ film on the Vietnam War earlier this year, Fred Judkins had this warning for any veteran of that war with post-traumatic stress disorder: “Be very careful, because it’s very, very intense.” Judkins served in an Army …

The depiction of the Vietnam War in popular culture just isn’t for Terry Coons. He lived it, as a member of the Army’s 23rd Infantry Division in 1969 and 1970. This memory from those 13 months has never left him: A young Vietnamese girl in a nearby village was burned …

As a Marine in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, 19-year-old Bob Barnas grew up “real fast.” He saw friends die near him, but the tragedies he witnessed while serving his country during that conflict didn’t change his attitude toward the United States whatsoever. Barnas now lives in High Springs and …

“They gave up all of their tomorrows so that we could enjoy our today’s freedom, and that's one of the purposes of having the ceremony here today," said Retired Director of Alachua County Veterans Services Jim Lynch.