Vietnam

I enjoy a good historical fiction novel so, as you can imagine, I've read more than my fair share of books about war or countries that were occupied by foreign powers during times of conflict. And many of those stories, usually the ones that affected me the most profoundly, were told from the viewpoint of…

April 30, 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, precipitated by the capture by North Vietnamese forces of the city of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. In anticipation of the city's capture by communist forces, the U.S. government began evacuating American Military and civilian personnel from Saigon in the month before the city's fall.   In a shocking miscalculation, formal…