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In the mid-1980s, African American veterans of the Vietnam War were twice as likely as White veterans to experience posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), at a prevalence of 40%. [5] Reasons for the disparity in PTSD prevalence could include social and racial discord during the war, institutional racism within the military, and racism after the war.
American military personnel who served in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States military people of the Vietnam War . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion. The costs of the war loom large in American popular consciousness; a 1990 poll showed that the public incorrectly believed that more Americans lost their lives in Vietnam than in World ...
(In the series, Black soldiers recall North Vietnamese propaganda about how they should be fighting for civil rights at home instead of killing Vietnamese soldiers in the name of the American ...
He said he was a little boy during the Vietnam era but remembers the images vividly. He believes the war defined an era of American history and changed the attitude of the nation for its future.
The death count for U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War exceeded 58,000 before the government severed its involvement in 1973. A total of 395 fallen soldiers were from New Mexico, according to the ...
The Vietnam War (1955-1975) confronted the US Army with a variety of challenges, both in the military context and at home. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, soldiers faced an invisible enemy using guerrilla tactics, while the difficult terrain, tropical diseases and the constant threat of ambushes strained the morale and effectiveness of the troops.
This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]