In recent years I have learned that, for the people of Vietnam, the war has never ended. Millions of the unexploded bombs and land mines we left behind still kill and maim children and farmers ...

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...

War movies concerning the Vietnam War encompass the specific traits that make them easily distinguishable from other films within the war genre. The majority of Golden Era war movies, which ...

April marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, and the wounds of the Vietnam War remain open ‒ not just for Americans who fought there, but also for those who lost everything when the war ended ...

DOT. TODAY, THE NATION HONORS VIETNAM WAR VETERANS. IT’S AN ANNUAL COMMEMORATION MARKING THE DAY U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE COMMAND VIETNAM WAS DISESTABLISHED IN 1975. ACCORDING TO THE DEFENSE ...

Barely more than two years after Green Beret Robert Howard’s heroic attempt to retrieve a severely injured lieutenant from enemy-controlled territory during the Vietnam War, he stood before ...

We learned how to build a timber bridge and a bailey bridge,” said Kern. Life in a War Zone Then it was on to Vietnam. He arrived in country on May 20, 1969. “It was hot. Just beastly hot.

The world experienced a bumpy ride in the final years of the Cold War, with post-Vietnam détente, the Star Wars rhetoric of the US, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the collapse of communism.