and an already divided American public. My Lai lay in the South Vietnamese district of Son My, a heavily mined area where the Vietcong were deeply entrenched. Numerous members of Charlie Company ...

South Vietnam was a capitalist republic led by Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietminh wanted to unite the country under communist leader Ho Chi Minh. Many of the South Vietnamese people supported Ho Chi Minh ...

Vietnamese flags fly on the Hien Luong Bridge, with a memorial in the distance ... and Da Nang, which was a major base for both American and South Vietnamese forces. “Everywhere you went, you know, it ...

Vaspra also described how Vietnam veterans were treated differently than their predecessors because of how divided public support for the war was — a wrong the ceremony sought to right ... The ...