WASHINGTON — Forty years later, Henry Moak still loves his pound cake. The Army colonel popped open a military C-ration can of pound cake from 1969 at his retirement ceremony, and dug in. Moak got the ...

Nathan Abernathy reviews all kinds of foods, but the meal he was about to dig into was special. It had been prepared in 1965. The Missouri resident had secured a U.S. military ration from the Vietnam ...

You can tell how old a C ration is by the design of the Lucky Strikes in the accessory pack, Dr. Dyrc Sibrans of Decatur, a Vietnam veteran, told Catherine Godbey.