While the fall of Saigon two years later is remembered as the final day of the Vietnam War, many had already seen their involvement in the war finished -- and their lives altered -- by March 29, 1973.
U.S. soldiers leaving the country feared angry protesters at home. North Vietnamese soldiers took heart from their foes' departure, and South Vietnamese who had helped the Americans feared for the future.
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And every damn war produces a sub-group of lost souls committing suicide, PTSD, homeless men.
These are the ones doing the front line dirty work of killing, not some gravy support job at HQ.
There is no good war and no bad peace. If our nation gets mad at some tin-pot dictator pisses on our country then just take the insults and sweat it out.
You who think war solves everything Better remember the lies told to get a war started an long it makes to get out.
It took 20 years to get out of Iraq. Now we're chomping at the bit to go to Iran and North Korea.
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