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 -- 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 ...

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 -- 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 ...

WASHINGTON - John Kerry has a piece of shrapnel in his left thigh from an injury he suffered in the Vietnam War, his doctor said Friday during a review of 36 pages of the Democratic presidential ...

(AP) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Vietnam pressing the communist country on democratic and economic reforms and offering U.S. assistance to protect its maritime borders. On his first trip ...