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Vietnam War
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Sacrifice in Saigon
In the busy intersection near the Presidential Palace a buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, sets himself on fire while holding prayer beads and never screaming or showing any signs he is in pain. A photograph of him burning gets major publicity and makes many more people realize how unnecesary the war is. Triggering many more protests. -
Rolling Thunder
This date is when Operation Rolling Thunder started, but it continued for years. Where the American Air Forces would repeatedly bomb North Vietnamese sites to demoralize them and weaken them. Only for them to immediately start rebuilding everything over and over again -
Khe Sanh Airbase Attack
The North Vietnamese's army bombarded an American occupied airbase named Khe Sanh. A battle that would brutally continue for 77 days, while the North Vietnamese planned their following sneak attack on many other provinces -
Tet Offensive
America made a pact with North Vietnam to not fight on Vietnam's New Year. But Vietnam broke that treaty and attacked at the very least 30 provinces owned by the Americans. An extremely devastating blow to American forces and morale -
Democratic Convention
A convention was held in Chicago in the International Amphitheatre, to select who would be the new nominee running for president. But the truly memorable thing about this event was the insane riot directly outside of the Amphitheatre. The riot began from a anti-war rally at Grant Park after a kid climbed a flag pole and took down the flag, the crowd began to march and bring their thoughts to the people in the hall -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival featuring artists that wrote songs stating their stance against the Vietnam War, Artists like Jimi Hendrix, Edwin Starr and many others touched the hearts of people who already opposed the war and changed minds of people who didn't. -
John Kerry Stunning Speech
John Kerry, a man who was formerly a troop in the Vietnam War returns home as many troops are drafted to Vietnam and a large percentage of them are killed. He became a very prominent person to be against the war. He testified before the Senant and told everyone of the horrible things that the troops did and how pointless this war was. He asked for troops to be taken out of Vietnam and even went so far to say "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" -
Tan Son Nhut Airbase Attack
Two days before the fall of saigon, morale became so low in the South Vietnamese that some troops had defected to the communist side. And some of the troops even brought the communists American aircrafts which made it possible for the North Vietnamese to bomb the American Airbase so severely -
Evacuation of Saigon
The Americans were told that they had 24 Hours to get out of Vietnam and the countdown would start with the song "White Christmas" playing over the radio. And immediately after many American helicopters landed on tops of buildings and the soldiers led as many Vietnamese as they could to get on the aircrafts in a rush to evacuate as many people as possible. -
Ho Chi Minh Victory
The day after the Americans evacuated as many people as they could and retreated. Ho Chi Minh arrived in Saigon and succesfully took over, renaming Saigon "Ho Chi Minh City". The war was declared over
