Years before Oliver Stone made The Doors, he wanted to make a movie about Vietnam with The Doors' lead singer, Jim Morrison.

The Vietnam War was a challenging time in U.S. history, and for many, the scars it left still feel fresh. While fighting overseas, the soldiers didn't just have to worry about the mortal threat of the ...

CARLSBORG — They trained together, some fought together, and a few even graduated from high school together. On Saturday, 14 members of the “Evergreen State Platoon — 3041” — a group of Vietnam War ...

MINDEN, La – For nearly 47 years, dentist Richard Campbell has been serving the people of this small city in Webster Parish. Campbell grew up in Minden and by the 1960s was attending college at ...

In Oliver Stone‘s new memoir, he writes about when he first understood that his screenplay about a lost soldier in Vietnam connected back to the oldest tales of humankind. The protagonist of what was ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - Fifty years ago, on June 28, 1968, a group of 45 young Colorado men took the oath of enlistment together, forming the Jefferson County Platoon. They would go through basic ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1986 film Platoon, which starred Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen, was a gritty re-creation of the incredibly difficult jungle ...

Hal McDuffie was born at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in 1946, grew up in the Whitaker Bayou area, and became part of a tightknit community of boys who attended Sarasota High School and remain close to ...

Correspondent photo / John D. Bagnola Dominic Santangelo of McDonald displays a photo of himself while serving in Vietnam and his collection of medals from his time in the Army. EDITOR’S NOTE: To ...

SUNRISE (CBSMiami) -- Every Friday, in partnership with the Florida Panthers, we put the spotlight on a hero among us, men or women who have gone beyond the call of duty for our country. Today, we're ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Since our last preview of Strategy First and Digital Reality's upcoming real-time strategy game, we've received another copy of Platoon, the game ...