U.S. officials are not attending the main public event commemorating the end of the Vietnam war in Ho Chi Minh City this week, according to a guest list released by the organizers and seen by NPR.

In the 50 years since it ended, the Vietnam War has reshaped attitudes of soldiers and protesters alike about both the U.S. military and America’s engagement with the world.

The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to 1975, with America’s military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s being what many remember most. But it was actually part of a much larger unification struggle ...

FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in ...

It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. Most of the country’s 100 million people were born after the fighting stopped. They ...

U.S. officials are not attending the main public event commemorating the end of the Vietnam war in Ho Chi Minh City this week, according to a guest list released by the organizers and seen by NPR.