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Tuesday, March 19, 2013  U.S. war costs last for more than a century, monthly payments to Civil War vet families

Wednesday, August 08, 2012  US starts landmark cleanup of Agent Orange nearly 4 decades after Vietnam War's end

Tuesday, October 25, 2011  An Air Force Academy graduate from 1963 who had been missing since the Vietnam War was identified and returned home for proper burial over the weekend.

Monday, June 13, 2011  40 years after explosive leak of Pentagon Papers, secret Vietnam war study coming out in whole

Thursday, March 03, 2011  Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, who was awarded the nation's highest military honor for heroism in Afghanistan, says he's just an average soldier.

Monday, June 14, 2010  Maj. Thomas B. Mitchell was among nine U.S. airman aboard a C-130 cargo plane over Laos on May 22, 1968, during the Vietnam war. The plane lost radio contact, and the crew of another aircraft saw a large ground fire near the last known location of the C-130.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010  The Democrat represented the 3rd Congressional District in Washington between 1964 and 1978, a period which included the Vietnam War and Watergate.

Friday, May 14, 2010  The class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Denver Wednesday seeks more than $75,000 in damages for Glenn Belcher and Allen Grider and Valerie Pitz. The cities have banned the dog breeds.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010  Don Ross left Fairbanks, Alaska, on Oct. 9 and arrived nearly 5,000 miles later in Denver on Monday. He was still in Colorado on Tuesday.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010  It is hard for civilians to imagine what a soldier goes through when at war, and it is even harder to imagine what they feel after returning home.

Monday, September 07, 2009  The UH-1s first flew in 1956 and were used heavily in the Vietnam War. The Army is phasing them out in favor of the faster, more powerful UH-60 Blackhawk.

Sunday, July 05, 2009  Robert S. McNamara, defense secretary during Vietnam war, dies in Washington

Thursday, April 02, 2009  He is Lt. Col. Earl P. Hopper Jr., U.S. Air Force, of Phoenix, Ariz. Hopper was a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is to be buried on April 3 at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix.

Thursday, March 05, 2009  William Ayers was a co-founder of the radical anti-Vietnam war group Weather Underground.