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In this special presentation, Vietnam veterans from across the country share powerful, personal stories 50 years after the ...
Nearly four million U.S. high school students are graduating this year. Most are teenagers, but in Muscatine, Iowa, ...
Vietnam War movies are more reflective of the counter-culture era, containing anti-establishment views, ... and used the story to recount their early meddling that resulted in the Vietnam War.
Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, ... which ended in the early 1970s, made Vietnam more than just a moral issue for Americans, ...
The best Vietnam War books from Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and others offer new insights and perspectives into the conflict that you probably never got from history class.
Dive into the history of the draft during the Vietnam War, ... Though the law enacting the draft technically expired by early 1947, it was reenacted shortly thereafter. In 1950, ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach ...
Kennedy committed increasing numbers of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam in the early 1960s. President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated that involvement to over half a million troops by the late 1960s.
Turning Point: The Vietnam War is a five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger, that examines how the United States became involved in the civil war in Vietnam, starting in the early ...
The Vietnam War was our longest—longer than the Civil War and the two world wars. It rent our society as no other issue had done since the War Between the States, and the wounds it inflicted ...
The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged while the U.S. still had a military draft, and the last to inspire a wide range of notable, first-hand fiction — none more celebrated or ...
Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War ended with a chaotic scene on the roof of a Saigon building that housed employees of the United States Agency for International Development. American GIs and the ...