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• Bay Shore parade celebrates its 94th year

  Vietnam veteran John Digilio, 67, remembers attending the annual Bay Shore-Brightwaters Memorial Day parade throughout his childhood to honor his father, a World War II veteran.Now a veteran himself, Digilio helps organize the event as a member of the Am   Read more »

• Obama to honor fallen troops, mark 50th anniversary of Vietnam War

  President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the nation's fallen warriors on Memorial Day , attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and honoring those who died during the Vietnam War.The president was to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony   Read more »

• Funeral held for airman killed 46 years ago

  Forty-six years after he went missing during the Vietnam War , William Kevin Colwell came home yesterday -- to be remembered and honored in the Glen Cove church where he was baptized.The Requiem Mass at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church gave closure to t   Read more »

• LI man's remains found in Laos after 46 years

  On the morning of Christmas Eve 1965, a blue Air Force sedan pulled up to a home on Fairmont Place in Glen Cove .Ann Famigliette, 17, stood by the front steps as two uniformed officers emerged from the car. She knew immediately the news would not be good   Read more »

• Daughter: Vietnam War soldier's grave found

  Just before Air Force Major John O'Grady left in early 1967 to fly bombing missions in the Vietnam War, his teenage daughter Patricia told him that if he were ever lost, she would come and find him.On Sunday, more than 45 years later, at what is believed   Read more »

Around the web

• Newmarket Vietnam vet awarded Purple Heart

  of Newmarket received the award from U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., during a ceremony in Manchester on Wednesday. Fellow Vietnam War veteran Jim Keefe, also of Newmarket, was also awarded the Purple Heart on Wednesday, along with eight other medals. Roy 2:14 AM from SeacoastOnline.com Read more »

• James Ponce Sr., champion of St. Augustine, dies at 91

  the Sea Court for two seasons to house the cast and crew of “Cross and Sword.” He also recalled that, at the onset of the Vietnam War, Ponce traveled to Vietnam and helped build airfields there. Phillip Whitley, former photographer for The Record, described 1:01 AM from St. Augustine.com Read more »

• New Various Travel Authors for 06/02/2012

  Tonkin Gulf, where a 1964 North Vietnamese-U.S. naval encounter sparked a major upsurge in U.S. participation in the Vietnam War. Since the islands — designated a UNESCO World Heritage site — are the prime draw here, the Zaandam provided the best possible 12:10 AM from Creators Syndicate Read more »

• Chris Hayes and the Conservatives' Open Warfare Attack Campaign on the First Amendment

  our troops. You know it’s killing them. But it’s the progressives’ own doing – their sickening performance following the Vietnam War, when they figuratively and literally spit on our troops – so disgusted decent Americans of all political stripes that to do 6/1/12 from Let Liberty Ring Read more »

• Panetta explains Pentagon's 'pivot' toward Asia

  our access and freedom of action may be threatened." The U.S. military largely withdrew from Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War ended in the mid-1970s and major U.S. Navy and Air Force bases closed in the Philippines in the early 1990s. The return to the 6/1/12 from Los Angeles Times Read more »