While traveling on the Mekong Delta on Saturday, Kerry met a former Viet Cong soldier who took part in an attack on Kerry’s Swift Boat on February 28, 1969, an event which led to a Silver Star ...

On Feb. 22, 1967, his Company B, under Capt. Donald S. Ulm, was participating in Operation Junction City, an offensive aimed at trapping the already bloodied Viet Cong 9th Division.

Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass—favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku.