On Saying Goodbye to Vietnam

Fifty-three million Americans came of age between 1964—when passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution took place, authorizing a massive increase in U.S military presence in Southeast Asia—and 1975, the year when the war finally and ignominiously ended with the fall of Saigon into the hands of the victorious Communist North Vietnamese. During that 11-year period, fewer than three million Americans…

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