BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam's capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach the ...
Red-and-gold banners snapped in the sticky morning breeze above a quarter-mile-long grandstand holding some 5,600 Vietnamese dignitaries and foreign guests. I occupied one of the cushioned seats, ...
Anniversaries are usually times to celebrate—a birth, a marriage, a victory, an extraordinary achievement. But last month’s fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War was not for most ...
Test your knowledge about the conflict that defined a generation. A half-century after the war’s finale, the aging of the baby boomer generation means firsthand memories of the conflict are fading.
When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds, lay ...
We mark 50 years since the end of the U.S. war on Vietnam with the acclaimed Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops took control of the South ...
SIOUX FALLS, (KELO) – April 30 marks 50 years since the Vietnam war ended with the fall of Saigon as the United States military withdrew the last of its troops. Both Ron Anderson and Ron Obe who ...