Former President Donald Trump, who was born in 1946, also did not serve in the Vietnam War, unlike many members of his generation. The ex-president received four draft deferments while an ...

The Vietnam War most directly affected those young men eligible for military service. Between 1965-72, about 154,000 men of draft age lived in Cuyahoga County. Local statistics for military service ...

Draft board volunteers in eight states will participate in a virtual exercise to understand their roles if ever activated.

The fall of the South Vietnam capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975 — soon to be 50 years ago — effectively spelled the end of the Vietnam War.

Fox; and the overlap of the civil-rights movement with anti-war and anti-draft protests in "Da 5 Bloods" (2020), starring Chadwick Boseman. Allison also analyzes how the US and Vietnam have used ...

As I was an only child, I was exempt from the draft, but not from the turbulence of the war. The Buddhist uprising against Ngo Dinh Diem raised the first doubt in my mind about South Vietnam.

The U.S. and Russia, engaged in a tense Cold War, begin providing ... in April 1975. Vietnam is formally reunified July 2, 1976. In 1977, Pres. Carter pardons all draft dodgers.

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country, state or territory ruled over by another country, state or territory. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two.

Becoming Cheech & Chong I went to Canada in my early 20's as part of the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War. I started doing comedy because they paid me more for doing comedy than ...