Every February, Black History Month shines a light on Americans whose contributions shaped the nation. One belongs to Pfc.

A year after enlisting, Cloninger experienced the moment that would change his life forever when he was hit by a grenade ...

BROCKTON — Lorraine Burbank was 10 in the summer of 1967. One day a priest and two Marines showed up at the gate. It meant her older brother was dead. Marine Cpl. Wladyslaw "Scotty" Staniszewski was ...

By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine ...

IN 1967, Melvin Murrel was a 21-year-old Marine in Vietnam with a price on his head. Murrel, who turns 70 next year, doesn't often talk about his heroism in Vietnam. But the mission he started back ...