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How a Navy sailor fell off his ship — then became a Vietnam POW hero

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How a Navy sailor fell off his ship — then became a Vietnam POW hero

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4 months, 1 week ago

Australian Vietnam War veterans and descendants help discover long-buried Vietnamese soldiers

ABC

In a rubber forest just north of Ho Chi Minh City, an excavation to find the bodies of North Vietnamese soldiers has made a long-awaited discovery. Excavators digging at the site of a B-52 bomb crater, north of Ho Chi Minh City, in an attempt to learn more about the Vietnam War and identify remains of fallen soldiers. "Having found …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy: How Australia's Hoa Xuande became the ultimate double agent

Salon

Hoa Xuande has been waiting to get some good lines. It all comes down to language in "The Sympathizer," in which Xuande plays Captain, a bilingual double agent whose ability to speak fluent Vietnamese and English makes him an invaluable asset for everyone he encounters. Robert Downey Jr. in "The Sympathizer" As those who technically lost the war, it's the …

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1 year ago

Henry Kissinger, one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in U.S. history, dies

LA Times

Henry A. Kissinger, the architect of U.S. foreign policy at the apex of the Cold War and a towering intellectual force in world affairs for more than half a century, has died at his Connecticut home. There, Kissinger and Zhou plotted Nixon’s ground-breaking trip to China, which took place in February 1972, a visit that Nixon called “a week that …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers, dies at 92

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. “An entire generation of Vietnam-era insiders had become just as disillusioned as I with a war they saw as …

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2 years ago

The "Christmas bombing" of 1972 — and why that misremembered Vietnam War moment matters

Salon

As Americans head into the holiday season, we also approach a significant historical milestone from the U.S. war in Vietnam: the 50th anniversary of the final U.S. air offensive on North Vietnam, an 11-day campaign that began on the night of Dec. 18, 1972, and has gone down in history as the "Christmas bombing." Following a few last-minute wording changes, …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: Why the Nobel Peace Prize is the most controversial award ever

Firstpost

The Nobel Peace Prize’s credibility is often questioned as Mahatma Gandhi never won the honour. Many more were patently undeserving.” Let’s take a look at the several controversies that have dogged the Nobel Peace Prize and why some believe that the award has drifted away from peace. Tho, who was the first Asian awarded for the honour, decline his half …

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2 years, 2 months ago

A letter to … my immigrant mother, a girl in Vietnam

Al Jazeera

To the pre-teen girl selling ducks on the side of the road in Bien Hoa, I see you. You have seen the people building the airbase nearby, the one that the French Air Force will use to fight the North Vietnamese in the ongoing Indochina War, the war they will later call the “first” because there are more conflicts to …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Vietnam then, Afghanistan now: Tense Kabul evacuation rekindles memories of another US retreat

Firstpost

The Vietnam operation, dubbed Operation Frequent Wind, saw more than 7,000 Vietnamese civilians evacuated from Saigon on 29 and 30 April 1975 by helicopter The Taliban’s inexorable advance on Kabul and US efforts to evacuate its embassy staff from the Afghanistan capital have revived memories of the fall of Saigon and America’s hasty withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. The Vietnam …

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How a Navy sailor fell off his ship — then became a Vietnam POW hero

How a Navy sailor fell off his ship — then became a Vietnam POW hero

Australian Vietnam War veterans and descendants help discover long-buried Vietnamese soldiers

Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy: How Australia's Hoa Xuande became the ultimate double agent

Henry Kissinger, one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in U.S. history, dies

Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers, dies at 92

The "Christmas bombing" of 1972 — and why that misremembered Vietnam War moment matters

Explained: Why the Nobel Peace Prize is the most controversial award ever

A letter to … my immigrant mother, a girl in Vietnam

Vietnam then, Afghanistan now: Tense Kabul evacuation rekindles memories of another US retreat