50 years after the fall of Saigon — We gained the world, but lost our homeland

Ended by the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War was also played on the field of ideas. Particularly in France, where the intellectuals mostly saw in this conflict the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.

50 years after the fall of Saigon — We gained the world, but lost our homeland

We lost our homeland half a century ago, and in the process, gained the world. In the waning days of April 1975, the U.S. Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam kept playing “White Christmas” though the temperature was hot and muggy. We didn’t know it at the time, but it was code for evacuation of American personnel and some Vietnamese officials. Saigon fell to communist forces on April 30 and one of America’s longest wars was over. The communist victors…

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We lost our homeland half a century ago, and in the process, gained the world. In the waning days of April 1975, the U.S. Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam kept playing “White Christmas” though the temperature was hot and muggy. We didn’t know it at the time, but it was code for evacuation of American personnel and some Vietnamese officials. Saigon fell to communist forces on April 30 and one of America’s longest wars was over. The communist victors…