Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Public Opinion on Wars

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  Almost 50 years after the end of the Vietnam War, 53% of Americans believe that sending troops to Vietnam was a mistake. This is only slig...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Student Protest Then and Now

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 Jeff Greenfield at Politico : The political consequences of the upheaval became clear. While the doomed liberal campaigns of Eugene McCarth...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Reaction to Campus Vietnam Protest

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In 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed several protesters at Kent State.  Philip Bump at WP : A poll conducted after the shootings found t...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Ke Huy Quan

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Previous posts have noted how much Vietnamese refugee s have contributed to the United States . Ke Huy Quan's  acceptance speech  for b...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

An Admiral and a Famous Vietnam Photo

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Blake Stilwell at Military.com : When South Vietnam fell to North Vietnamese forces in 1975, an estimated 125,000 Vietnamese refugees fled t...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Profile of Veterans

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Katherine Schaeffer at Pew: Gulf War-era veterans now account for the largest share of all U.S. veterans , having surpassed Vietnam-era vet...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Veterans Day 2020

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 From the Census Bureau : • The number of veterans in the United States declined by a third, from 26.4 million to 18.0 million between 2000...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Former Rivals on McCain

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Our statement on the passing of Senator John McCain: pic.twitter.com/3GBjNYxoj5 — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 26, 2018 Heav...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Puerto Rico and Vietnam

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Puerto Ricans are US citizens .  They are subject to the draft, and fight in our nation's wars. From the Defense Department: During...
Friday, February 24, 2017

The Silencing of Janet Nguyen

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From California State Senator Janet Nguyen: “Today, in a clear violation of my first amendment rights, I was silenced and forcibly remove...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

"We Are Not About to Send American Boys..." -- LBJ, Fifty Years Ago Today

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Fifty years ago today, on October 21, 1964, Lyndon Johnson went to Akron and spoke about the Vietnam War.  He said : “Sometimes our folks...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Denton and Torture

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The New York Times reports: The prisoner of war had been tortured for 10 months and beaten repeatedly by his North Vietnamese captors i...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Syria and Vietnam

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A post in May discussed President Obama's 2012 comment about a "red line" in Syria . Now the government is contemplating mili...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

President Obama on Ho Chi Minh

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Meeting with the president of Vietnam, President Obama said this past week: At the conclusion of the meeting, President Sang shared with ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

National Pride

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A recent post mentioned a poll on national pride by the Public Religion Research Institute.   Here is the full release: As the nation pr...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Vietnam Veterans Day

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Yesterday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who served in Vietnam as an Army noncommissioned officer, issued a statement commemorating Vietnam...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Heroism and the Media

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During the Civil War, Congress established the nation's highest military honor.  The Defense Department explains : Signed into law J...
Monday, March 19, 2012

The Toll

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Battle Deaths in American Wars Revolutionary War 4,435 War of 1812 2,260 Mexican American War 1,...