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50 years later, Vietnam’s battlefields draw retrospective veterans and other tourists
Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books. And ...
Vietnam’s battlefields become unlikely tourist spots 50 years on from the war
More than half a century after the Vietnam war dominated headlines, some remember the battles of Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia ...
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50 years after fall of Saigon, MLT woman shares her experience as Vietnamese refugee
April 30 will mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. While American citizens and ...
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Alice McDermott’s tale of American Catholics in Vietnam
McDermott is well aware that French colonialism planted Catholicism in South Asian soil, that in the mid-1950s hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics fled Ho Chi Minh’s northern territories in ...
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who's Who in South Vietnam
He returned to Vietnam to rule under French control until he was ousted by South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in a rigged election in 1954. Known popularly as "Big Minh," Duong led the South ...
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Who's Who: North Vietnam
After adopting the name Ho Chi Minh, or "He Who Enlightens," he returned to Vietnam in 1941 and declared the nation's independence from France. Ho led a nearly continuous war against the French ...