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Friday is a day to remember all Vietnam War veterans.

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House.

An 83-year-old Vietnam veteran is at long last getting his due.

One of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's top award for bravery on the battlefield.

The Virginia War Memorial is seeking entries for the 2022 Veterans Day Student Essay Contest.

The Forest Rotary Club organizes the display where each of the 1,000 American flags are sponsored for a veteran, a member of active-duty military, police, fire, or healthcare worker.

It was a final salute to Vietnam Veteran Bob Sherman, who we’re told did not have a proper funeral after he died in January.

Here's a look at some of the stories we'll be following today as they make headlines in Southwest Virginia.

People can come to Smith Mountain Lake to remember the 58,000 soldiers who fought and passed away in the Vietnam War.

The group will take veterans from our area to Washington D.C. free of charge.

The Virginia War Memorial is requesting personal photos from Vietnam War veterans from Virginia for an upcoming exhibit.

U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul's airport, ending America's longest war.

The Vietnam War and Foreign Conflicts Foundation is on a mission to raise one million dollars to build a museum in Nelson County.

Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old former journalist, attends a gathering in support of people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, in Paris, Saturday Jan. 30, 2021. Activists gathered Saturday in Paris in support of people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, after a French court examined a case opposing a French-Vietnamese woman to 14 companies that produced and sold the toxic chemical. U.S. forces used Agent Orange to defoliate Vietnamese jungles and to destroy Viet Cong crops during the war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million gallons of the chemical agent across large swaths of southern Vietnam. Ad“That’s where lies the crime, the tragedy because with Agent Orange, it doesn’t stop.

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BLACKSBURG Va. – More than five decades have passed since lieutenant Gary Lee Miller made the ultimate sacrifice in the Vietnam War. Friday, Virginia Tech leaders honored Miller, who died when he jumped on a grenade to save those around him during the Vietnam War in 1969. “It’s a sad reminder of the sacrifices that these brave people made but it enriches the culture of Virginia Tech and adding that story is a phenomenal step forward in students understanding where the came from and why they have the freedoms they have,” Virginia Tech President Tim Sands said. It was only recently discovered that Miller, a Covington native, attended a branch of Virginia Tech before being deployed. After making the ultimate sacrifice to protect more American lives than just his own, Miller’s name will stay etched on the cenotaph for those to honor his life for decades to come.

Drafted to serve his country in the Vietnam War, Russell Milberry arrived there two days before his 20th birthday and died five days later. - Drafted to serve his country in the Vietnam War, Russell Milberry arrived there two days before his 20th birthday and died five days later. This wasn't their idea of going to war and this was right in their own community," said Stambaugh. And it fulfills the longtime wish of Charlie Stambaugh one of his fellow comrades from the same small town. "He's with me every day and I get signs all the time and I know he's really happy about this."

DALLAS - When Bryan Knight was 5 years old, he said goodbye to his father at an airport in Dallas, Texas, just before he was sent off to the Vietnam War. A few months later, US Air Force Maj. Roy A. Knight, Jr., 36, went missing in action. Earlier this year, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency informed Knight that his father's remains had been found. On Thursday, Knight -- a pilot for Southwest -- flew his father's remains back to the place where he last saw him more than 50 years ago, Dallas Love Field Airport. The photos showed the honor guard waiting for and then carrying the casket, while the ground crew stood at attention.