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Some historians begin the war with the first US casualties in 1956/57; some choose to start the war with Kennedy's Green Berets and SEALS entering the fray in '61; some choose 1964, when the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" surfaced; some people choose '65 when LBJ sent in the regulars.

For ending it, some folks choose '73 when US combat troops redeployed. But that's not really accurate, as US Military personnel became casualties all the way up until Saigon was evacuated in 1975.

The vast majority of writers and historians appear to select 1961-1975.

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