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50 years later, peace treaty that was supposed to end Vietnam War still haunts my family My father's fellow pilots were shot down a week after the Paris Peace Accords were signed.
The Vietnam experience is in the very pores of the American body politic. We breathe it in and breathe it out and we view just about everything–often falsely–through its prism. It didn’t end.
Vietnam has celebrated the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.
50 years later, peace treaty that was supposed to end Vietnam War still haunts my family My father's fellow pilots were shot down a week after the Paris Peace Accords were signed 50 years ago.
Historians discussed U.S. diplomatic and peace initiatives during the Vietnam War. Panelists focused on the role soldiers played, why the war should have been avoided, the perspective of the South ...
A Jan. 3 article on Sen. John F. Kerry's Vietnam War experience misstated the year of the fall of Saigon. It was 1975. (Published 1/6/04) Eighth in a series of occasional articles In November 2000 ...
On this day in history, 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords, which formally brought an end to the Vietnam War.
Vietnam War veteran Scott Camil once believed the war to be right and honorable. Now, Camil is the founder of Gainesville Veterans for Peace, an organization that partners with other organizations ...
The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March on the Pentagon, the 1968 Tet Offensive, May Day in 1971, and ...
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains a graphic image which may be disturbing to some readers. The Wisconsin Historical Society is hosting “Waging Peace in Vietnam” — a traveling exhibit that ...
Fifty years after serving in Vietnam as a combat engineer for the Army in 1967, Dan Gallagher still carries the emotions of war with him. “I’ll take Vietnam to my grave,” he said.
Vietnam celebrates the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.