The Vietnam Service Ribbon depicted above was worn by over 3 million U.S. Servicemen between 1956 and 1973. Over 58,000 of them were killed in action, and thousands more suffered wounds and other psychological traumas.
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- Chronology
- Summary
- Resources
- The Village: A Story
- Women's Memorial
- Course Description
- LBJ Vietnam Speech
- Tonkin Resolution
- Domino Theory
- Peace Negotiations
- Important Names
The Vietnam War has justifiably been called America's longest war, even though the exact start date is difficult to determine; in any case, it was America's most frustrating war, and the first war American ever lost, at least in the opinion of many Americans.
The legacy of Vietnam is still cloudy, and some of the most penetrating works on the Vietnam War have come out in the past few years. Vietnam has also been called America's first television war, where scenes from the battlefields were piped into out livingrooms night after night. Movies and television, however, have since the end of the war tended to warp our perceptions of that time, as scores of battle-fatigued, drug-addicted veterans have paraded across our screens.
These pages, whose author is a Vietnam veteran, will try to address that bitter experience with fariness and compassion for all involved, Vietnamese and American, hawks and doves, those who served and those who stood and waited.
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