This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...

Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S.

THE STORY. OLIVIA. MILITARY PARK IS NOW FILLED WITH POLITICIANS, VETERANS, VIETNAMESE AMERICANS WHO IMMIGRATED TO OKLAHOMA AFTER THE WAR AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. WHILE I’M TOLD THIS IS A SOMBER OCCASION ...

People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...