OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — The images this week of people desperate to flee their country as a prolonged U.S. military occupation comes to an ignominious end looked familiar to retired Master Gunnery Sgt.
You've probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven't heard the radio ...
The Biden administration has rejected comparisons of Afghanistan and Vietnam. But a Vietnam veteran who earned the Medal of Honor said the current situation is "just like Vietnam in 1975." The Taliban ...
On April 30, 1975, the last evacuation flight left the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. Along with the women and children evacuees the flight carried, it also carried the last vestige of hope for all ...
Biden administration and other officials are worried about a replay of the infamous Vietnam War finale on the roof of the Saigon embassy as they move to evacuate American diplomats from Afghanistan, ...
‘I knew I would have been killed if we’d stayed behind,’ said Hoang Ly, whose family was rescued from Saigon by Marine Stephen Greene A few days before Thanksgiving every year, Hoang Ly settles into a ...
The U.S. military won every battle in Vietnam, but the war was lost at home due to public opinion and political decisions. The author expresses the lasting emotional impact of the war and the sense of ...
A previous version of the caption accompanying the 1975 photo from Saigon incorrectly identified the building as the U.S. Embassy. The helicopter was hovering over another building a half-mile from ...
A few days before Thanksgiving every year, Hoang Ly settles into a chair at his home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to write a thank-you email to Stephen Greene, the lanky American who helped his family ...
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