I remember boys who went but didn't come back. I was so afraid my fiancé would be drafted, but he was in college. Every day on the radio, they would give a count of how many Viet Cong were killed and how many Americans were killed that day. It was always a huge amount of Viet Cong to few Americans, but we found out later that was lies. John Kennedy wanted to get us out of the war, but Johnson expanded it. We were told communism would spread if we didn't stop them now. Then we surrendered. The TV was filled with helicopters evacuating South Vietnamese and Americans, and people were trying to hang on to the helicopter's skids. After 45 years elapsed, I was getting my nails done, and the girl doing them was Vietnamese. She was getting ready to go home on vacation. I asked her if the Vietnamese people hated America. She said no. So many of the people had no memory of the war. I would like to visit there someday.
I remember boys who went but didn't come back. I was so afraid my fiancé would be drafted, but he was in college. Every day on the radio, they would give a count of how many Viet Cong were killed and how many Americans were killed that day. It was always a huge amount of Viet Cong to few Americans, but we found out later that was lies. John Kennedy wanted to get us out of the war, but Johnson expanded it. We were told communism would spread if we didn't stop them now. Then we surrendered. The TV was filled with helicopters evacuating South Vietnamese and Americans, and people were trying to hang on to the helicopter's skids. After 45 years elapsed, I was getting my nails done, and the girl doing them was Vietnamese. She was getting ready to go home on vacation. I asked her if the Vietnamese people hated America. She said no. So many of the people had no memory of the war. I would like to visit there someday.
They were hoping it would end pretty soon before someone they loved or cared about got drafted. The longer it went on, the better the chances were that a loved one would be conscripted.
Yes. Vietnam was a French colony. They lost a Vietnam War and were thrown out of Vietnam before America tried to win a war in Vietnam. America also lost a Vietnam War.
The costs for America in the Vietnam war was $140 billion
North Vietnam won the war.
North Vietnam started the war against South Vietnam; the US went to the aid of the South.
The Vietnam war. Or the Resistance War Against America.
They needed to grow veggies.
I don't think there would be communism in North+South Vietnam anymore...that was the cause of the war.
They didn't want to be drafted for it.
Yes. Vietnam was a French colony. They lost a Vietnam War and were thrown out of Vietnam before America tried to win a war in Vietnam. America also lost a Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War made America stronger.
America was defending Vietnam.
Defeat the communist north and unite Vietnam under one capitalist dictatorship. Win the war.
The Vietnam War=the military draft!
The costs for America in the Vietnam war was $140 billion
Most of the hippies and liberals did not support the Vietnam. that's why we pulled out of Vietnam during the war. we did not pull out in world war one and world war 2 because america was geared in for the war, but Vietnam, not all of america was in for it.
Vietnam , America , and Russia
North Vietnam won the war.