American Experience has explored the war from many angles — from the battlefields of Vietnam, to the decision making in Washington, to the protests on college campuses. Explore the in-depth and ...

Still, the most obvious lesson of Vietnam is the one hardly ever acknowledged: the terrible price paid—human as well as strategic—when America loses a war. If this lesson of the Vietnam War is ...

“I wanted to be a hero,” Bill Broyles recalled in a recent interview about why he volunteered to go to Vietnam ... in Afghanistan (“the longest war in American history,” he noted ...

The disorientation of assimilation was Lê’s subject, the complicated experience of giving up something you knew, something ...

he noted that the American conception of war tends to involve battles, soldiers, guns, and specific beginning and end dates. From his experience growing up as a refugee of the Vietnam War ...

The reunion of old friends, first-person accounts and rarely seen footage paint an extraordinary and deeply profound picture of what it was like to live through one of history's longest wars.

Search and Destory From 1965, the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were ...

An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War." He is also a Vietnam battlefield tour guide with the UK company The Cultural Experience. You can find out more about Bill here: https://www ...

The vast majority of Ukrainians want the freedom they have, want to be independent of Russia, and not to be living under ...

Casualty figures reflect the pattern of American involvement in the war. One local man, Navy flight surgeon Bruce C. Farrell of WESTLAKE, died in Oct. 1963, before the beginning of "the Vietnam era." ...

An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War." He is also a Vietnam battlefield tour guide with the UK company The Cultural Experience. More from How Real Is It? Editor's note: At 05:00 in this video ...