Photographer Tom Sanders has dedicated his career to capturing the faces and stories of America’s veterans through American Heroes: Portraits of Service, a project in partnership with Belmont Village Senior Living. Since 2008, he has photographed nearly 1,000 veterans across the country preserving their legacies for future generations. Tom stopped by two of the facilities in June and today on Houston Life we really got the sense of why a picture is worth a thousand words. Their stories of courage, service, and sacrifice remind us why honoring our heroes matters now more than ever.

It's been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. We spoke to a local veteran and refugee as they reflect on that time.

Vietnam has celebrated the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.

The Vietnam War produced some of the most classic films of the late 1970s and 1980s.

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy.

War has long inspired artists and musicians.

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.

The Houston National Cemetery will host a Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony

Fish sauce is an indelible part of Vietnam's culture and essential for its vibrant cuisine.

A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed.

Heartbroken family seeks help after Vietnam veteran's Houston apartment was burglarized before his funeral.

It's one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War — an Associated Press photograph of a young girl running naked down a street after being caught in a napalm attack.

Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment.

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House.

An 83-year-old Vietnam veteran is at long last getting his due.

One of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's top award for bravery on the battlefield.

Today, the country will pause to salute Veterans who have sacrificed so much for our country.

U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul's airport, ending America's longest war.

Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old former journalist, attends a gathering in support of people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, in Paris, Saturday Jan. 30, 2021. Activists gathered Saturday in Paris in support of people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, after a French court examined a case opposing a French-Vietnamese woman to 14 companies that produced and sold the toxic chemical. U.S. forces used Agent Orange to defoliate Vietnamese jungles and to destroy Viet Cong crops during the war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million gallons of the chemical agent across large swaths of southern Vietnam. Ad“That’s where lies the crime, the tragedy because with Agent Orange, it doesn’t stop.