candidates for president tried to both condemn the Vietnam War and honor those who fought in it, while accusing opponents of being skaters, fakers and draft dodgers. When the United States invaded ...

American forces withdrew from Vietnam, but the war went on with ... Optimism that public opinion would sway their government’s leaders on matters of war and peace had been steadily crushed ...

“South Vietnam was essentially created at that ... General Westmoreland told leaders that the war was being “successfully prosecuted.” That event proved the opposite, and that the North ...

Two Vietnamese women shop for fruit at a market in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Vietnamese performers participate during a ...

A SCRATCHY prerecorded message crackled over American Armed Forces radio in Saigon 50 years ago, announcing the temperature was "105 degrees and rising", before playing a snippet of White Christmas.

HO CHI MINH CITY, April 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, in what the country's communist leader said was a ...