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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KrAzY_iN_LuV" data-source="post: 7401390" data-attributes="member: 210849">The Vietnam War  began on Nov. 1, 1955, and ended 35 years ago on April 30, 1975 when Saigon, now  known as Ho Chi  Minh City, fell. The United States entered the war to prevent a  communist takeover of South  Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. Military  advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the  early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again  in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Involvement  peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet Offensive. The war exacted a huge human cost in  terms of fatalities, including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both  sides, 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S.  soldiers. By this war's end, the Vietnamese had been fighting foreign  involvement or occupation in various wars for over a hundred years.    <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     In this Sept. 25, 1965 file photo,  paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd  Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they  cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the  jungle area of Ben Cat,  South Vietnam. The  war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist  troops from the north.   AP / Henri Huet   MORE IMAGES                                        <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this June 11, 1963 file photo, Quang Duc,  a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of  Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. The war ended on April  30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now  known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.   AP /  Malcolm Browne      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this March 1965 file photo, hovering  U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover  the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet  Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, in Vietnam.    AP / Horst Faas      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this March 19, 1964 file photo, a  father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army  Rangers look down from their armored vehicle near the Cambodian  border in Vietnam.    AP / Horst Faas      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this 1966 file photo, U.S. Army  helicopters providing support for U.S. ground troops  fly into a staging  area fifty miles northeast of Saigon,Vietnam.     AP / Henri Huet        <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm06.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this Sept. 21, 1966 file photo, U.S.  Marines emerge from their muddy foxholes at sunrise after a third  night of fighting against continued attacks of north Vietnamese 324 B  division troops during the Vietnam War.    AP / Henri Huet      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm07.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this June 15, 1967 file photo,  American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at  tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a  battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-Northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's  War Zone D.   AP / Henri Huet      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm08.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Left - In this June 17, 1967 file  photo, medic James  E. Callahan of  Pittsfield, Mass., treats a U.S. infantryman who  suffered a head wound when a Viet Cong bullet pierced his helmet during a  three-hour battle in war zone D, about 50 miles northeast of Saigon.   AP / Henri Huet Right - In this January 1966 file photo,  First Cavalry  Division medic Thomas Cole,  from Richmond,  Va., looks up with one uncovered eye as he treats a wounded Staff Sgt. Harrison  Pell during a firefight in the Central Highlands in Vietnam, between U.S. troops and a combined North  Vietnamese and Vietcong force.  AP / Henri Huet      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm09.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this 1966 file photo, Pfc. Lacey  Skinner of Birmingham,  Ala., crawls through the mud of a rice paddy avoiding heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi  in South Vietnam, as  troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry  Division fight a fierce 24-hour battle along the central coast.     AP / Henri Huet      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this Jan. 1, 1966 file photo, women  and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense  Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam.     AP / Horst Faas      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this April 1969 file photo, a South  Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47  others in a mass grave  near Hue,Vietnam.     AP / Horst Faas        <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Left - In this June 18, 1965 file  photo, an unidentified U.S. Army soldier wears a hand lettered "War Is  Hell" slogan on his helmet, in Vietnam.   AP / Horst Faas Right   - In this Jan. 9, 1964 file photo, a South Vietnamese soldier uses the  end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government  troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong  guerrillas in a village west of Saigon, Vietnam.    AP / Horst Faas      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm13.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this June 8, 1972 file photo,  9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, runs down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam  after an aerial napalm attack.   AP / Nick Ut      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm14.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this Feb. 1, 1968 file photo, South  Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, fires  his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen  Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a  Saigon  street, early in the Tet  Offensive.  AP / Eddie Adams      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm15.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  This May 1970 file photo shows  demonstrators showing their sign of protest as ROTC cadets parade at Ohio  State University during a ceremony in Columbus, Ohio during the Vietnam War. Denied a graduation ceremony because of student unrest in  1970, graduates of several universities are finally getting a  commencement in special ceremonies this spring.   AP / file      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm16.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Left - In this 1966 file photo,  the body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near  the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter in War  Zone C, Vietnam. AP  / Henri Huet Right - In this April 29, 1975 file photo,  people try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon,  trying to reach evacuation helicopters, as the last of the Americans  depart from Vietnam.   AP / Neal Ulevich      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm17.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this April 30, 1975 file photo, a  North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential  Palace in Saigon,  signifying the fall of South Vietnam.     AP / file       <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this April 29, 1975 file photo, U.S.  Navy personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea off the  coast of Vietnam in  order to make room for more evacuation flights from Saigon.  AP / file      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm19.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this April 29, 1975 file photo, a  South Vietnamese mother and her three children are shown on the deck of  an amphibious command ship being plucked out of Saigon by U.S. Marine helicopters in Vietnam.      AP / file      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/vietnam_sm/vietnam_sm20.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  In this March 17, 1973 file photo,  released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis  Air Force Base in Fairfield,  Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War.  AP / Sal Veder </blockquote>

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