Cliff was inspired by a real-life friend who served in Vietnam and came back a dramatically changed man. While it’s not exactly a pro-war song, Merle Haggard’s 1969 counter-counterculture ...

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...

Heart singer-guitarist Nancy Wilson says it's "more embarrassing" to be an American now than during the Vietnam War. Wilson ... at the time the song was written in the 1970s, "wanted to make ...

Dewey, an employee of the CIA's precursor agency, the Office of Strategic Services, is shot and killed on his way to the Saigon airport, becoming the first American casualty of the Vietnam War.

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country, state or territory ruled over by another country, state or territory. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two.