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 ...

Grew up overseas, having lived in Berlin before going to a Swiss boarding school at age 11. After his return from Vietnam, he became a leader of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry holds ...

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: ...

A month or so ago, when John Kerry was dead, the Atlantic Monthly ran a stunning excerpt from historian Douglas Brinkley’s book about Kerry’s military service in Vietnam–stunning not so much for the ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Before joining President Barack Obama on his first trip to Vietnam next month, Secretary of State John Kerry will take a day to reflect on his long and complicated history with ...

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 -- In the photograph, found on his Web site and in his commercials, John Kerry is a young naval lieutenant posing in a T-shirt with his crew on Vietnam's Mekong Delta. It is a wartime image ...

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 ...

John Kerry did not have to think all that hard about joining the military and going to Vietnam. He had doubts about the wisdom of U.S. intervention in Vietnam, which was rapidly escalating during 1965 ...

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 ...