Vietnam POWs honored at Travis ‘Homecoming’ (Michael O’Connor)

Vietnam POW outraged over flag removal at tavern (Samuel Vaughan)

The Summerville man is modest, even while pointing at a display box of medals he’s earned through blood and sweat. Samuel Vaughan spent 16 months imprisoned at Hanoi in Vietnam. He was captured on April 18, 1971, only three months after arriving in Vietnam as a fighter pilot for the

A POW’s story (William McMurry)

Bill McMurry recently spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary about his experience as a POW in North Vietnam. He was captured on February 7, 1968 after helping defend the Lang Vei Special Forces surveillance camp in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, about one and a half miles from the Laotian

Looking back at Operation Homecoming on POW/MIA Day (Brian Seek)

In an AAFES parking lot at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, rests a plaque dedicated to former POWs from the Vietnam war, including some from the 388th Fighter Wing. It’s easy to walk past plaques, but this one is worth stopping to consider. For nearly a decade before it moved to Hill

Captured in Vietnam – One Wyoming Family’s Story of Despair and Hope (Ted Gostas)

During the Vietnam War more than 1,800 Americans were held prisoner or were missing in action in Southeast Asia. Among them was Army Major Theodore “Ted” Gostas of Sheridan. Gostas was born in Butte, Montana, on December 13, 1938. After enduring a difficult childhood and an abusive father, Gostas enrolled

Gaining strength from the past: Museum opens exhibit on POWs (William Beekman)

They are pictured cooking, laughing, seated with their pets, standing with their wives. The photographs of 30 former Vietnam war POWs portray a comforting normalcy, though their common history is anything but. Most hold no anger or bitterness.