The conflict in French-occupied Indochina started well before the Vietnam War. The French had colonized Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in 1858 for rubber and tea plantations. “They began armed conflict.

Conflict had been brewing in Vietnam well before the start of the Vietnam War.The French began controlling the country in the 1800s, and the Japanese invaded during World War II.

On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful schisms were personal for me. I am the son of the late Robert S ...

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I always assumed that napalm strikes burned the enemy. Then came the photo after I’d returned to "the world," as we called ...

It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. Most of the country’s 100 million people were born after the fighting stopped. They ...

Watch "Vietnam 50 Years Later: Reflections on a War that Changed Minnesota" in the video player below, or on our YouTube channel. Watch the full documentary The journey of Pauleen's mother's family ...