CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

CHANDLER – At a recent dinner held in honor of Vietnam veterans, Bill Messer, who served in an Army signal batallion in the Mekong Delta, mingled with fellow veterans and swapped stories from the war.

Sun Citian Jerry McNelly can remember being screamed at, ridiculed and spit upon in the Seattle/Tacoma International Airport awaiting to fly home to the Bay Area after serving in the Vietnam War. It was 1969 and the Vietnam War – and the same harsh treatment soldiers received when they arrived back home – would last another six years.

A Surprise mother who lost one of her sons to enemy gunfire while serving in Iraq is helping to carry through on his message of goodwill to others. Marc Lee, who on Aug. 2, 2006, was the first Navy Seal to be killed by enemy forces during the war in Iraq, sent home a letter to loved ones that wound up striking a nerve with his mother, Debbie.

They were young soldiers once — and friends ever since. Tom Brooks, a Vietnam War veteran, organized a gathering of men he knew from the 1st Air Cavalry Division during the late 1960s.

A replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial recently came through the Valley.

Thirty-four years after a Viet Cong bullet ended Art Lucero's job as a U.S. Navy field medic, the Mesa man is still coping.

Scottsdale Public Library debuted its latest exhibit, the Vietnam Experience, to the public today.

In Friday’s Tribune, a story about a group of veterans aiding wounded soldiers should have said Dick Merschdorf served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, not in Vietnam.

August 30, 2004

Scottsdale’s Civic Center Library debuted its latest exhibit, The Vietnam Experience, to the public this week.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday.

HANOI, Vietnam - President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.