![]() Right now, however, the misinformation, cover-ups, and confusion about Vietnam still pervade our national consciousness. Right now, we can only look back at the war and take stock of what we know was real and what was B.S. from day one. ![]() We will learn a great deal about this time in American history. We are at the fifty year mark for the start of the war, so soon more and more government documents from the period will be declassified. It was the backbone to the most tumultuous period in American history since before the Civil War one century prior. The war ended the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson and left a lasting impression on Richard Nixon’s. ![]() The facts not in dispute by either side are just as harrowing: Over 20 years, more than 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam and more than 150,000 wounded, not to mention the emotional toll the war took on American culture.
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