Vietnam put that myth to rest. The war haunted American politics for decades, but 50 years on, and with veterans’ average age now 72, its salience is fading.

1 / 14 Show Caption + The Vietnam War-era Army uniform of Alan Blencoe is shown March 6, 2023, at the Fort McCoy History Center at Fort McCoy, Wis. Blencoe, a former Army sergeant who served in ...

HANOI—David McCaskey visited the new war museum here to see the American planes, helicopters and tanks from the Vietnam War. But the 33-year-old graduate student from Buffalo, N.Y., quickly ...

As a Vietnam War refugee who fled to U.S., I wanted to mark this 50th anniversary with hope. Then I read about Trump's order to U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.

In 1966, I was a junior at Harvard, and I had turned against the Vietnam War. But I gave in to my father’s pressure to remain in a Marine Corps officer candidate program and I served as a Marine ...

About 7,000 U.S. women served overseas as nurses during the Vietnam War. These veterans are working to ensure their contributions are honored on Veterans Day 2024.

JUST LIKE ME: The Vietnam War/The American War is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Vietnam: The War That Changed America is a somewhat-condensed take on the ten-year war, which definitely takes a faster-paced look than, say, Ken Burns’ series The Vietnam War.