PMC Cadets Support Troops in 1969. To support the troops in Vietnam, PMC Cadet Louis Ogus (PMC 1969) organizes a trip from campus to counter a Philadelphia anti-war rally. Pictured here is a member of the group, Cadet Dennis Yurcisin (PMC 1971).
John Lance Geoghegan, Vietnam War 1959–1975. Geoghegan (PMC 1963) serves in Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry. He dies in combat during the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965. He is portrayed in the book We Were Soldiers Once, and Young that...
Anti-Vietnam War protests. Protests against the Vietnam War continue unabated throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this 1966 photograph, demonstrators march on Broad Street in Philadelphia opposite the hotel where Vice-President Hubert H....
The United States withdraws from Vietnam, 1975. This withdrawal marks the end of the longest military conflict in U.S. history. Shown is the painting, LZ X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley, by Richard M. Taus (PMC 1965).
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982. A Vietnam veteran proposes the creation of a memorial honoring those who died in the war. Designed by Maya Lin, a Yale University undergraduate, it is built on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
