Vietnam War

In war or in peace, thousands of Iowans have served in the armed forces. With both archival audio and original interviews, "In Uniform" honors and…

They were known as "POW bracelets," a symbolic metal band bearing the name of a Vietnam POW, or a man missing in action. More than 40 years after the…

Grateful Americans are honoring former President Gerald Ford this weekend at a reunion in Dana Point, California. They owe their citizenship, and perhaps…

It was code-named Operation Homecoming, when the U.S. and North Vietnam signed a peace agreement and our prisoners of war started coming home.We remember…

A keepsake from the Vietnam War will be returned to an Iowa soldier who lost it in 1971 on the bottom of Iowa’s Lake Delhi. John Jones’ gold, 25th…

An Iowa soldier took along a small tape recorder for his tour of duty in Vietnam and sent tapes home to his family in Burlington. We witness the Vietnam…