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=Vietnam Sources: a Wiki by Mrs. Sharon Mistretta = Vietnam War Commemoration ||  || In Accordance With Public Law 110-181 SEC.598; the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the Secretary of Defense to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War and "in conducting the commemorative program, the Secretary shall coordinate, support, and facilitate other programs and activities of the Federal Government, State and local governments, and other persons and organizations in commemoration of the Vietnam War." ||
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 * Vietnam 50 Anniversary Website ||  || The United States of America
 * Vietnam 50 Anniversary Website ||  || The United States of America
 * Geneva Peace Accord ||  || The Wars for Vietnam - Vassar Website ||   || Signed by France and Vietnam in the Summer of 1954. The agreement divided the country at the seventeenth parallel.
 * Geneva Peace Accord ||  || The Wars for Vietnam - Vassar Website ||   || Signed by France and Vietnam in the Summer of 1954. The agreement divided the country at the seventeenth parallel.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Second Indochina War, 1954-1975, grew out of the long conflict between France and Vietnam. In July 1954, after one hundred years of colonial rule, France was forced to leave Vietnam. Read more... || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Dear Mr. President, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I have been following with great interest the course of developments in Vietnam, particularly since the conclusion of the conference at Geneva. The implications of the agreement concerning Vietnam have caused grave concern regarding the future of the country temporarily divided by an artificial military grouping, weakened by a long and exhausting war, and faced with enemies without and by their subversive collaborators within. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Your recent requests for aid...read more... || <span class="subhead" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Buddhist Protests of 1963 - Reporting the War ||  || <span class="subhead" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">MALCOLM W. BROWNE: <span class="subhead" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Buddhist Protests of 1963 <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Because of what I knew of the Buddhist tradition in Vietnam, I realized that it had to be taken seriously. So while other correspondents got tired of the endless Buddhist street demonstrations that were going on all that summer, I stuck with them, because I had the sense that sooner or later something would happen. read more. . . ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Ngo Dinh Diem ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">President Eisenhower's 1954 Letter to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">October 23, 1954
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Ngo Dinh Diem ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">President Eisenhower's 1954 Letter to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">October 23, 1954
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Buddhist Protests ||  || <span class="subhead" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">MALCOLM W. BROWNE:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Buddhist Protests ||  || <span class="subhead" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">MALCOLM W. BROWNE:
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Geneva Conventions ||  ||= <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PBS - Primary Sources - The Geneva Convention Documents ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties signed in Geneva, Switzerland. The treaties were signed between 1864 and 1949 and were designed to provide for the humane treatment of prisoners of war.
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Geneva Conventions ||  ||= <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PBS - Primary Sources - The Geneva Convention Documents ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties signed in Geneva, Switzerland. The treaties were signed between 1864 and 1949 and were designed to provide for the humane treatment of prisoners of war.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments represented at the Diplomatic Conference held at Geneva from April 21 to August 12, 1949, for the purpose of revising the Convention concluded at Geneva on July 27, 1929, relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, have agreed as follows...Read more... || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">August 5, 1964
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Military Escalation ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Bill Moyers' Journal - Johnson's Eacalation of the Vietnam War - A Timeline ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The origins of the Vietnam War lie in 1945, when the British ignored Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence and restored French rule to the country. . . read more . . . ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">LBJ's Daily Diary ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">LBJ's Daily Diary ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Lyndon Johnson’s secretaries began compiling the Daily Diary in 1959, when Johnson was the Senate Majority Leader. As meetings and telephone calls occurred, the secretary “working” the Diary would note them. Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Gulf of Tonkin Incident ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PBS - Primary Sources - The Tonkin Incident ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">President Johnson's Message to Congress
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">LBJ's Daily Diary ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">LBJ's Daily Diary ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Lyndon Johnson’s secretaries began compiling the Daily Diary in 1959, when Johnson was the Senate Majority Leader. As meetings and telephone calls occurred, the secretary “working” the Diary would note them. Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Gulf of Tonkin Incident ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PBS - Primary Sources - The Tonkin Incident ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">President Johnson's Message to Congress
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Gulf of Tonkin Incident ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PBS - Primary Sources - The Tonkin Incident ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">President Johnson's Message to Congress

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Last night I announced to the American people that the North Vietnamese regime had conducted further deliberate attacks against U.S. naval vessels operating in international waters, and I had therefore directed air action against gunboats and supporting facilities used in these hostile operations. This air action has now been carried out with substantial damage to the boats and facilities. Two U.S. aircraft were lost in the action. Read more... || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">An Overview ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Vietcong
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Operation Rolling Thunder ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Thesis, LCDR Peter Fey, USN ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">In an effort to convince the North Vietnamese government to abandon its support of the insurgency in South Vietnam, President Johnson began a new bombing campaign in March 1965, known as Operation Rolling Thunder. Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guerrilla Warfare in Vietnam ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guerrilla Tactics:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guerrilla Warfare in Vietnam ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guerrilla Tactics:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guerrilla Warfare in Vietnam ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guerrilla Tactics:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the Cambodian border. For arms, ammunition and special equipment, the Vietcong depended on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Other needs were met inside South Vietnam. . . The Vietcong were masters at moving through and blending into the local terrain...read more... || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The tunnels concealed living areas, storage depots, ordnance factories, hospitals, headquarters – a range of facilities than enabled people to live, and wage war from, underground for years at a time... read more ... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Tunnel Systems ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Viet Cong Tunnels ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Just 40 kilometres from Saigon, around an area known as the Iron Triangle in the Cu Chi district, lay the most complex Viet Cong tunnel system in South Vietnam. The area, a Viet Cong stronghold, was heavily defended and used as a base for attacks on the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon. The most extensive of the tunnel systems, which covered some 400 kilometres, lay to the north of the village of Cu Chi.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Tunnel Systems ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Viet Cong Tunnels ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Just 40 kilometres from Saigon, around an area known as the Iron Triangle in the Cu Chi district, lay the most complex Viet Cong tunnel system in South Vietnam. The area, a Viet Cong stronghold, was heavily defended and used as a base for attacks on the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon. The most extensive of the tunnel systems, which covered some 400 kilometres, lay to the north of the village of Cu Chi.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Video of Tunnel Systems ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Click on the play button to watch a video of the Vietnam Tunnel System. If you are viewing this video in the Media Center, please put on your headsets. ||   || media type="file" key="TUNNEL RATS VIETNAM WAR - YouTube.m4v" width="300" height="300" align="center" ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Summary of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson, July 20, 1965 ||  || <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Wars for Vietnam: Vassar - McNamara ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">...Use of forces.The forces will be used however they can be brought to bear most effectively. The U.S. third-country ground forces will operate in coordination with South Vietnamese forces. They will defend their own bases; they will assist in providing security in neighboring areas; they will augment Vietnamese forces, assuring retention of key logistic areas and population centers. Read more... ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">TET Offensive ||  ||= <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam . Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> Battle of Hué ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Georgia Tech - Battle of Hué ||   || <span class="F12Bd" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">As the ancient imperial capital and cradle of Vietnamese history and culture, Hué stood as a tremendous psychological prize in the struggle for control of that beleaguered country.
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">TET Offensive ||  ||= <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam . Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> Battle of Hué ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Georgia Tech - Battle of Hué ||   || <span class="F12Bd" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">As the ancient imperial capital and cradle of Vietnamese history and culture, Hué stood as a tremendous psychological prize in the struggle for control of that beleaguered country.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> Battle of Hué ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Georgia Tech - Battle of Hué ||   || <span class="F12Bd" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">As the ancient imperial capital and cradle of Vietnamese history and culture, Hué stood as a tremendous psychological prize in the struggle for control of that beleaguered country.

<span class="F11" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> In February 1966, at a strategy meeting in Honolulu, President Lyndon Johnson asked his commander in Vietnam, Gen. William Westmoreland, what his next step might be if he were the enemy commander:

<span class="F11Bd" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"Capture Hué <span class="F11" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">," General Westmoreland answered without hesitation, explaining the city was the symbol of a unified Vietnam. "Taking it would have profound psychological impact on the Vietnamese in both the North and the South, and in the process the North Vietnamese might seize the two northern provinces as bargaining points in any negotiations." Read more... ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Armed Forces Press ||   || * Vietnam Vets: 9.7% of their generation <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Statistical <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Information for the Vietnam War ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Statistical Information about Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. These records were transferred into the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration in 2008. The earliest casualty record contains a date of death of June 8, 1956, and the most recent casualty record contains a date of death of May 28, 2006. The Defense Casualty Analysis System Extract Files were created by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The records correspond to the Vietnam Conflict statistics on the DMDC web site. || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">A Soldier's Stories ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">A collection of personal narratives. Such as, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"It was 1968, and I had been in Viet Nam for less than 20 days. I had no idea how quickly my life was going to change." Read more... || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The My Lai courts-martial are the stories of two tragedies growing out of American involvement in Viet Nam. One was the massacre by United States soldiers of as many as 500 unarmed civilians-- old men, women, children--in My Lai on the morning of March 16, 1968. The other was the cover-up of that massacre. ** ... ** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">" Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam Draft Lottery ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">U.S. Selective Service System ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">A lottery drawing - the first since 1942 - was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950. Re-institution of the lottery was a change from the "draft the oldest man first" method, which had been the determining method for deciding order of call. <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Read more] . . . ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam War Statistics ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Veterans Hour
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam War Statistics ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Veterans Hour
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam War Statistics ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Veterans Hour
 * 9,087,000 Military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era. Aug. 5, 1964 - May 7, 1975.
 * 8,744,000 GIs Were on active duty during the war. Aug. 5, 1964 - March 28, 1973
 * 3,403,100 (Including 514,300 Offshore) Personnel served in the Southeast Asia Theater (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Flight Crews based in Thailand, and sailors in adjacent South China Sea Waters.)
 * 2,594,000 Personnel served within the borders of South Vietnam. Jan. 1, 1965 - Mar. 28, 1973 Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">National Archives
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">National Archives
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Draft Dodgers-Vietnam Era ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">University of Washington - Antiwar and Radical History Project ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Vietnam War sparked a mass antiwar movement in the United States, involving students on campuses, soldiers in the military, and civilians marching in the streets. Employing the civil disobedience tactics and grassroots mobilizations of the civil rights struggles, the early movement was also spurred by networks of student protest already formed during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964 and the founding of Students for a Democratic Society in 1960. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Read more . . . ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Social Make-Up of the American Army - 1 ||  ||   ||   || [[file:Columbia_Guide_to_the_Vietnam_War_Appendix_2_Statistics.pdf]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Social Make-Up of the American Army - 2 ||  ||   ||   || [[file:WhoJoinsTheMilitary.pdf]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Daily Life of a Typical Soldier ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam Soldier:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Social Make-Up of the American Army - 2 ||  ||   ||   || [[file:WhoJoinsTheMilitary.pdf]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Daily Life of a Typical Soldier ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam Soldier:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Daily Life of a Typical Soldier ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam Soldier:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Daily Life of a Typical Soldier ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam Soldier:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Perceptions of Vietnam War at home. ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Television Coverage of the Vietnam War == == ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Television Coverage of the Vietnam War and the Vietnam Veteran By Erin McLaughlin ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Kent State Shootings - 1 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Kent.edu - May 4 Task Force ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"At noon about 500 students gathered around the Victory Bell on the Commons, the traditional site for rallies. A group of history students, who had organized the protest, buried a copy of the Constitution, which they claimed had been murdered when US troops were sent into Cambodia without a declaration of war by Congress." Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Kent State Shootings - 2 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Click on the play button to view the Crosby Stills Nash & Young Ohio Video. If you are viewing this video in the Media Center, please put on your headsets. ||   || media type="file" key="Crosby, Stills, Nash _ Young - _Ohio_ (1970) - YouTube.m4v" align="center" width="360" height="360" ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">My Lai Massacre ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">University of Missouri - Kansas City - Famous American Trials - My Lai Court Case ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Kent State Shootings - 2 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Click on the play button to view the Crosby Stills Nash & Young Ohio Video. If you are viewing this video in the Media Center, please put on your headsets. ||   || media type="file" key="Crosby, Stills, Nash _ Young - _Ohio_ (1970) - YouTube.m4v" align="center" width="360" height="360" ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">My Lai Massacre ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">University of Missouri - Kansas City - Famous American Trials - My Lai Court Case ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">My Lai Massacre ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">University of Missouri - Kansas City - Famous American Trials - My Lai Court Case ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">My Lai Massacre ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">University of Missouri - Kansas City - Famous American Trials - My Lai Court Case ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Bombing of Cambodia ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PBS.org Frontline - World ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">"On March 18, 1969, American B-52s began carpet-bombing eastern Cambodia. "Operation Breakfast" was the first course in a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia headlong into the Vietnam War. The Nixon Administration kept the bombings secret from Congress for several months, insisting they were directed against legitimate Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets. However, the raids exacted an enormous cost from the Cambodian people..." Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Return of the Vietnam Veterans - 1 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam Veterans of America ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Return of Vietnam Veterans - 2 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Remembrance ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"Remembrance" is a collection of "Galleries" containing imagery, stories, poems, songs, maps, and narratives from or about the Vietnam War era. This section also contains a "Glossary" of terms and slang used in this era and found in the writings throughout this Site. Read more ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Return of Vietnam Veterans - 3 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Vietnam Veterans Memorial - The Wall ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA website is dedicated to honoring those who died in the Vietnam War. Since it first went on line in 1996 it has evolved into something more. It is now also a place of healing for those affected by one of the most divisive wars in our nation's history." Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Return of Vietnam Veterans - 4 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Encyclopedia of the New American Nation ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"The Vietnam conflict impacted veterans in a variety of ways. Most combat soldiers witnessed violence and lost friends to the horrors of war." Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Depiction of War in Film ||  ||   ||   || Deer Hunter Coming Home Platoon Apocalypse Now ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Politics in The Vietnam War ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Shmoop.com ||   || Looking at the Past Through the Lens of Politics ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam after the war ||  || University of Illinois - The Postwar Impact of Vietnam ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> "F ollowing the end of America’s combat role in Vietnam in 1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, the often prophesied and much feared resurgence of McCarthyite Red-baiting, the bitter accusations of "who lost Vietnam?" barely transpired." Read more.. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Return of Vietnam Veterans - 4 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Encyclopedia of the New American Nation ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"The Vietnam conflict impacted veterans in a variety of ways. Most combat soldiers witnessed violence and lost friends to the horrors of war." Read more... ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Depiction of War in Film ||  ||   ||   || Deer Hunter Coming Home Platoon Apocalypse Now ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Politics in The Vietnam War ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Shmoop.com ||   || Looking at the Past Through the Lens of Politics ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam after the war ||  || University of Illinois - The Postwar Impact of Vietnam ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> "F ollowing the end of America’s combat role in Vietnam in 1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, the often prophesied and much feared resurgence of McCarthyite Red-baiting, the bitter accusations of "who lost Vietnam?" barely transpired." Read more.. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Politics in The Vietnam War ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Shmoop.com ||   || Looking at the Past Through the Lens of Politics ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam after the war ||  || University of Illinois - The Postwar Impact of Vietnam ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> "F ollowing the end of America’s combat role in Vietnam in 1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, the often prophesied and much feared resurgence of McCarthyite Red-baiting, the bitter accusations of "who lost Vietnam?" barely transpired." Read more.. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam after the war ||  || University of Illinois - The Postwar Impact of Vietnam ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> "F ollowing the end of America’s combat role in Vietnam in 1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, the often prophesied and much feared resurgence of McCarthyite Red-baiting, the bitter accusations of "who lost Vietnam?" barely transpired." Read more.. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vietnam after the war ||  || University of Illinois - The Postwar Impact of Vietnam ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> "F ollowing the end of America’s combat role in Vietnam in 1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, the often prophesied and much feared resurgence of McCarthyite Red-baiting, the bitter accusations of "who lost Vietnam?" barely transpired." Read more.. ||