Veterans returning to Vietnam have also been told they’re on their own, for public discussions they organize on war and reconciliation, and anniversary events. For many, it amounts to a sudden ...

April 30, 1975 – South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam as North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon, ENDING the Vietnam conflict. The war was estimated ... Calley is the only soldier ever ...

1883-1945 - Cochin-China, southern Vietnam ... only soldier ever convicted in connection with the event. April 1970 - Invasion of Cambodia - US President Richard Nixon orders US and South Vietnamese ...

Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War officially ended 50 years ago, but the consequences have cut through our population for three generations. The Vietnam War – one of the 20th century’s ...

On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a posthumous pardon to a North Bay Vietnam War hero for drug offenses committed after returning home. The park overlooking downtown Petaluma is named ...

Among the dead that month was Viv. A regular soldier, he was only 19 when his APC hit a mine in the jungles of the May Tao Mountains, a stronghold of the Viet Cong enemy. In 1970 the first of three ...

Strategic aid from China played a crucial part in Vietnam’s resistance, reinforcing the war effort and post-war reconstruction. As part of the series commemorating the 50th anniversary of national ...

how bad it was for you,” said Benheimer. The thought of the vietnam war ending fifty years ago doesn’t feel real to Benheimer. What does feel real are the memories and the fallen comrades of ...

April 30 marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. This story is personal to me, so I flew to Saigon to witness how the Vietnamese people commemorate the event.