After the speeches ended, after the bagpiper played "Amazing Grace," Bob Hamilton went searching for one of the 58,272 names on the polished black granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Hardly a day goes by that he doesn't think about Ray George, a fellow helicopter pilot who was killed in Vietnam when he subbed for Hamilton one day four decades ago. » read more

Joe Galloway, an award-winning journalist, former McClatchy columnist and co-author of “We Were Soldiers Once and Young,” was presented the Doughboy Award Tuesday along with two decorated Army veterans at the RiverMill Event Centre in Columbus. » read more

Joseph L. Galloway may be retired, but readers continue to ask about a column he wrote in May 2007 about a little-known ceremony that fills the halls of the Army corridor of the Pentagon with cheers, applause and many tears every Friday morning. We've linked it here for your reading convenience. » read more

To quote Mr. Dickens, they were the best of times and the worst of times. This is Galloway writing "-30-" and a farewell to this weekly column after almost seven years and wrapping up half a century in the newspaper business. » read more

Health care reform is on life support now, and it's time to consider pulling the plug and letting it die peacefully. It was a great idea, and there was and will remain a great need for the kind of radical reform that will pry the cold hands of Wall Street and the corporate boards from around the neck of medical care in our country. » read more