RICHMOND, Feb. 8 -- The simple mention of Vietnam spurs a John Kerry crowd to applause. No greater context is necessary. No "John Kerry served his country in Vietnam" or "earned a Silver Star in ...

WASHINGTON - The video begins with grainy film from a distant land and a disputed war. "In 1969," intones a narrator, "you didn't find too many Yale University graduates fighting in the jungles of ...

Kerry latest to present the Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture at Holy Cross. The one-time presidential nominee talked of his activitism after Vietnam. "It’s an ugly time," Kerry said of the political ...

Timeline 1966-1969 - Serves in the Navy in Vietnam as a gunboat officer on the Mekong Delta. Kerry is awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. 1971 - Speaks to members of the ...

WASHINGTON -- It was a mistake for John Kerry to spend four days at the Democratic convention establishing his connection to Vietnam. But it was oddly appropriate. More than any other politician of ...

WASHINGTON -- John Kerry's tour as a Swift boat skipper in Vietnam and his later leadership of Vietnam Veterans Against the War make him one of the iconic -- and ironic -- figures of the Vietnam era: ...

KIEN VANG, Vietnam— From an American gunboat decades ago, John Kerry patrolled for communist insurgents along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta. From those familiar waterways that ...

Forty-four years after first setting foot in the country as a young naval officer, John Kerry returned once more to Vietnam on Saturday, this time as America's top diplomat offering security ...

BOSTON (AP) — Former Navy officer John Kerry and his Vietnam-era swiftboat crewmates hailed a water taxi for a splashy entrance to this Democratic convention city Wednesday, with the presidential ...