For people today in Vietnam, April 30, 1975 marks the end of US occupation, the reunification of North and South Vietnam, Liberation Day, the beginning of peace and self-sovereignty. It is celebrated proudly with banners, flags, and military parades, and reminds the people that a country as small as Vietnam was able to defeat a military superpower, the US.
For the US, April 30, 1975 was the end of its military involvement in Vietnam. It was when this military of young people deployed thousands of miles from the United States to fight in an unwinnable war would return home. The end of that war reflected the success of a people that defeated the greatest military superpower known at that time. It represented the dissolution of American military might from fighting with boots on the ground to an air war, attempting to bomb a country back to the stone age—and it failed.
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- The Vietnam War Ended 50 Years Ago: People Still Get it Wrong by Arnold "Skip" Oliver
- Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Việt Nam War
Members In Action
Jeff Roy, Minneapolis Chapter 27, speaks at a rally for SOVA.
Speakers included Governor Tim Walz and the mayor of Minneapolis.