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This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the US War on Vietnam, and the United States government continues to ...
As America marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, the silence speaks volumes. The war was not an error in tactics, ...
Ronnie Smith, 76, of Riverhead, reflects on the “11 months, 24 days and 7 hours” he was deployed in Vietnam in 1967-1968 before he’d even turned 20 years old —and how it deeply affected the rest ...
For the generations of Americans over the past 50 years who know about the Vietnam War only from their U.S. history classes, the few pages in their textbooks devoted to the war cannot even remotely ...
Half a century after the Vietnam War, millions of Vietnamese citizens continue to grapple with disabilities, illnesses, and ...
Fifty years have passed since Vietnam’s people reunified after a long and bloody struggle. Most scars from that time have healed, but not all. The chemical Agent Orange — dropped from US planes to ...
From 1961 to 1971, the United States government undertook massive defoliation programs as an instrument of war in southeast ...
NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Vietnam Society founder Erin "Phuong" Steinhauer about the memories and hopes of Vietnamese Americans reflecting on 50 years since the fall of Saigon.
Commemorations of the end of the Vietnam war are happening, but US diplomats in Hanoi are not likely to attend.
It’s been 50 years since the fall of Saigon signaled the end of the Vietnam War, one of the deadliest wars in world history. Almost 60,000 Americans lost their ...
When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast ...
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, Buffalo veterans reflect on their service and the challenges they faced upon returning ...