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The main environmental concern that persists in Vietnam today is the legacy of the use of the chemical herbicide Agent Orange, which continues to cause birth defects and many health problems in the Vietnamese population. In the southern and central areas affected most by the chemical's use during the Vietnam War, nearly 4.8 million Vietnamese ...
He spent 16 months in Vietnam, starting in early 1968. [2] [7] On Valentine's Day 1969, Mawhinney encountered an enemy platoon and killed 16 NVA soldiers with head shots. [2] "It was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me", Mawhinney told the Los Angeles Times.
The A Shau Valley (Vietnamese: thung lũng A Sầu) is a valley in Vietnam's Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, west of the coastal city of Huế, along the border of Laos. The valley runs north and south for 40 kilometers and is a 1.5-kilometer-wide flat bottomland covered with tall elephant grass , flanked by two densely forested mountain ridges ...
Today, in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia government-run agencies and other groups continue to work to remove explosive remnants of war, with experts saying the US government has become the world’s ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam has resulted in 11,624,000 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 43,206 [1] deaths. The number of confirmed cases is the highest total in Southeast Asia , and the 13th highest in the world .
John Plummer, a Vietnam veteran who said he took part in coordinating the air strike with the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, met with Phúc briefly and was publicly forgiven. Plummer later admitted to The Baltimore Sun he had lied, saying he was "caught up in the emotion at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the day Phuc spoke".
"Goodnight Saigon" is a song written by Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain, about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.
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