An airborne Staff Sergeant in the US Army takes a little prisoner into custody which he found during the operation held just after the New Year’s cease-fire, southwest of Da Nang, Vietnam. (Photo: Keystone Pictures/Newscom)
On this day [March 29], in 1973, the last of the U.S. troops withdrew from South Vietnam. The eight-year war was over.
Sort of.
Two months earlier, the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. Among the agreement’s provisions was a cease-fire throughout Vietnam and withdrawal of U.S. forces. But even before March 29, communists violated the cease-fire.
More than 58,000 American lives were lost in Vietnam—a war often referred to as the nation’s least popular war. Today, Americans honor the men and women who served at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., where all 58,000 names are listed chronologically. Continue reading Remembering the Vietnam War, 42 Years After U.S. Troops Withdrew




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