The event had a total guest list of more than 1,300 that included movie stars Bob Hope, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, along with performances by Sammy Davis Jr., Irving Berlin and Vic Damone.

When we asked for your most prized stories of the holidays in uniform, our Vietnam-era veteran readers responded ... It was a great Christmas homecoming!" "It was December 26, 1966, [and the ...

One of the Vietnam veterans, Ed Barick ... energy and time had been put into it". A warm homecoming, he says, especially compared to the way that people were treated when they came back from ...