Agent Orange

Mike Walters needed to work just seven more years to earn his pension. Although he would be set to have an early retirement, he and his wife wanted to do…

GREEN COVE SPRINGS — Eighteen years ago, on their way to church on Sunday mornings, Kristen Burke and her husband would go out of their way to drive…

In the heart of Gainesville, there is a place where time stops, rewinds and folds over itself.The Theatre of Memory Museum, located at 1705 NW 6th Street,…

On Feb. 6, 1968, Hammett Bowen Junior left Ocala to enlist in the U.S. Army and fight in the Vietnam War.

Tony Magnifico is a U.S. Marine veteran of Vietnam, boxing trainer, retired construction worker and husband to a Vietnamese woman he met on a return trip to the country.

A UF student recounts what it was like growing up in Vietnam after the war. Read his story at WUFT.org.

David Willkomm served toward the end of the American ground-based conflict in Vietnam, and by then, he witnessed a sad breakdown of G.I. morale within his…

Raymond Harris’ service was unlike that of any other veteran interviewed for this series. He was a member of a unit called MACV-SOG, or Military…

Lewis Alston’s military career was over by age 19. His time as a reconnaissance scout in the U.S. Marine Corps ended after he was wounded, but he faced…

With the name of John Wayne Edwards, there were times as an Army soldier on patrol in the jungles of Vietnam that he felt invincible. Edwards was twice…