Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...

In the buzzing matrix of Hanoi’s old quarter sits Phở Thìn, one of 700-or-so pho restaurants that speckle this thousand-year-old city. Phở Thìn is practically outfitted with stainless steel tables, ...

THE STORY. OLIVIA. MILITARY PARK IS NOW FILLED WITH POLITICIANS, VETERANS, VIETNAMESE AMERICANS WHO IMMIGRATED TO OKLAHOMA AFTER THE WAR AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. WHILE I’M TOLD THIS IS A SOMBER OCCASION ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...

Vietnam has its own version of that turning point in history 80 years ago when the Japanese lost World War II — and their rule over much of Asia. Just as Communist China celebrates the occasion as a ...