On May 7, 1975, President Gerald Ford, a Republican, made a heartfelt appeal to the nation, urging Americans to welcome 130,000 Vietnamese refugees. He reminded us of our nation’s immigrant history ...

Had the U.S. simply let the Vietnamese determine their own future 50 years ago, the outcome would have likely been the same, minus the millions of dead.

Anniversaries are usually times to celebrate—a birth, a marriage, a victory, an extraordinary achievement. But last month’s ...

It seems the celebration of President Trump’s 100th day in office is more important than remembering the painful lessons of the Vietnam War ‒ which he managed to avoid. Healing will not come ...

The Vietnam War was ending. Or was it ... And the experience still holds pressing lessons, they add — lessons the nation seems not to have learned. American newspapers printed images of the ...

It was the so-called “best and brightest” elites, assembled under the presidency of John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), who steered the United States into the quagmire of the Vietnam War.

The lessons of Vietnam are deep for America ... The manner in which the war in South Vietnam came to a close — with abrupt withdrawal, broken commitments and implosion — damaged America ...

(NEXSTAR) — As America approaches the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, an exclusive nationwide survey is revealing the lessons learned and the impact of the two-decade conflict.

“They fought for the freedom and the independence of the Vietnamese people.” At the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington in May 2012, then-US president Barack Obama spoke of “honoring our Vietnam ...

"A lesson learned is not a lesson learned unless you learn it." Although I missed the Vietnam experience, having been commissioned as the war was winding down, I have observed or participated in a ...

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. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965 ...