Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

Pleiku, South Vietnam, Dec. 20, 1966: An unidentified Army nurse at Bob Hope’s 1966 Christmas Show. Some 11,000 women served in Vietnam, with 90% of them working as volunteer nurses. The nature of ...

Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, Dec. 21, 1966: Anita Bryant performs cheek to cheek with Pfc. Girard F. Bordine from Baltimore, Md. Bryant was part of the Bob Hope Christmas Show. Looking for Stars and ...

Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.