The War in Vietnam tore apart the nation, destroyed a generation, left many traumatized and asking questions.
Little note has been paid to the anniversary beyond NPR and PBS, a sad commentary on our Corporate Media.
There are lessons to be learned.
On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, we’ll look back on the end and long resonance of the Vietnam War.
For anyone who lived through it, the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War was unforgettable. After so many years of blood and protest and napalm and drama – American and Vietnamese – there was the image of the helicopter taking desperate, fleeing people off the very rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon. Of choppers being shoved off the sides of a US aircraft carrier into the sea to make room for more waves of desperate evacuees. Of history turning. Nations’ fates, parting. This hour On Point: Forty years later, we look back on the fall of Saigon and the epic war it ended.
Americans and Vietnamese run for a U.S. Marine helicopter in Saigon during the evacuation of the city, April 29, 1975. (AP)
For anyone who lived through it, the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War was unforgettable. After so many years of blood and protest and napalm and drama – American and Vietnamese – there was the image of the helicopter taking desperate, fleeing people off the very rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon. Of choppers being shoved off the sides of a US aircraft carrier into the sea to make room for more waves of desperate evacuees. Of history turning. Nations’ fates, parting. This hour On Point: Forty years later, we look back on the fall of Saigon and the epic war it ended.
– Tom Ashbrook
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/04/29/40th-anniversary-vietnam-saigon
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2 comments:
Sad commentary .. No in-depth interviews with anyone from this Epic Tragedy ..
Shame on you .. Our generation grew up on this War .. We watched it on TV unfold into a hatred for our Men & Women who served ..
Yet the Media cannot bring themselves to honor these people ever .. And they have suffered the most ..
Hiding your heads in the sand will never make Vietnam and what our Gov't did go away ..
PBS and NPR have done a stellar job reporting and interviewing.
I hope you've watched or listened to the coverage.
MSM pretends maybe because of the similarities to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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