Vietnam War

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/29/2020
  

  The 'Civil War' That Almost Stopped the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from Being Built

  “A civil war really broke out between the military veterans of Vietnam over this design,” said Jan Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

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• 2/16/20
  

  “Patriotic” Veterans Only, Please

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  While perhaps an indication of our current toxic political environment, the attacks on “unpatriotic” veterans like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman actually have a long and checkered history in post-World War II America.

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• 1/5/20
  

  A Personal History of Vietnam War Refugee Policies

  by Ron Steinman

  The story of how a Vietnamese family came to America after the Vientam War and started a new life. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  'Modern-day Pentagon Papers’: Comparing the Afghanistan Papers to blockbuster Vietnam War study

  Both studies were commissioned by obscure Defense Department agencies, Both are massive, and Both involved court battles, but 1971 was more dramatic. 

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• SOURCE: Literary Hub
  11/13/19
  

  On the Missing History at New York’s Warship Intrepid Museum

  by James Loewen

  James W. Loewen Wonders What Happened to Vietnam.

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• 11/17/19
  

  The Whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre

  by Howard Jones

  Evidence—and history—ultimately showed that an Army cover-up took place after the massacre. We know about it because of a single whistleblower and his two crewmates.

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• 11/10/19
  

  Echoes of the 1969 Vietnam War Protests 50 Years Later

  by Jim Castagnera

  "As I watch events unfolding in Washington today, I recall the river of candles flowing up Fifth Avenue fifty years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 23, 2019
  

  Protesters shut down D.C. traffic before. It helped end the Vietnam War — and reshaped American activism.

  by Hannah Natanson

  Thousands of protesters against the Vietnam War took to the streets of downtown Washington in May 1971 with a single goal: Bring traffic to a total, grinding halt in the nation’s capital.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  

  The U.S.’s Toxic Agent Orange Legacy

  Washington has admitted to the long-lasting effects of dioxin use in Vietnam, but has largely sidestepped the issue in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  5/25/19
  

  History is Often Closer Than We Think

  by Wayne Willis

  “Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/19
  

  They attacked a draft board office to protest the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, the fallout continues.

  The three young men, dubbed the Silver Spring Three, poured blood on draft cards in suburban Maryland.

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• 5/14/19
  

  Cassius Marcellus Clay and Muhammed Ali: What’s in a Name?

  by Joshua M Casper

  They were born with the same moniker, and both changed history. Two names. Two men. Two identities, Muhammed Ali and Cassius Marcellus Clay will forever be linked.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  4/20/19
  

  Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base

  Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/29/19
  

  ‘Blue water’ Navy veterans from Vietnam-era win Agent Orange benefits case

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled overwhelmingly for these sailors, finding they are eligible for the same disability benefits as those who put boots on the ground or patrolled Vietnam’s inland rivers.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The national security adviser who colluded with foreign powers — decades before Michael Flynn

  by Shane O’Sullivan

  New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-26-2018
  

  Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?

  The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein say he came to Donald J. Trump’s aid with a diagnosis of bone spurs during the Vietnam draft.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-28-18
  

  The Time a President Stoked a Protest So He Could Play the ‘Law and Order’ Card

  by David Greenberg

  Running against Democratic ‘mobs’ has worked for Republicans in the past.

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• SOURCE: HarperCollins
  9-12-18
  

  The co-author of Robert McNamara’s memoirs has himself written a history of Vietnam

  by Brian VanDeMark

  He suggests that mistakes may have been avoided had policymakers understood, as we do today, our biases, as cognitive science now makes clear.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8-21-18 (accessed)
  

  The whole world is watching

  How the 1968 Chicago 'police riot' shocked America and divided the nation.