Landmark Hanoi Hotel Unearths Vietnam-American War Bunker
The siren’s wail at the historic Metropole Hotel sent American folk singer Joan Baez and other guests scampering across a garden and into an underground bunker. Even through five feet of concrete, they could still hear the roar of American bombs raining on parts of Hanoi. Read More »US Veterans Try to Atone for Mistakes of the Past
Fifty years ago this month, in the early stages of the Vietnam War, the US military began spraying rural areas of the country with the herbicide, Agent Orange. The programme’s goal was to defoliate forested land, depriving the enemy Viet Cong of cover and driving peasants to the cities, thus destroying the Viet Cong’s support base and food supply. Read More »Vietnam-American War Babies Grown Up & Down on Luck
An obscure U.S. visa program once offered great hope for children fathered in Vietnam by GIs. Read More »Photos Honor General Vo Nguyen Giap’s 100th Birthday
Vo Nguyen Giap, the first General of the Vietnam People’s Army and the highly talented Commander-in-Chief during the two resistance wars, against the French colonialists and the US imperialists, will be 100 years old on August 25. Read More »S. Korea to Survey Former US Bases for Chemicals
South Korea said Monday it would conduct an environmental survey of dozens of former US military bases amid concerns over the alleged burial of a highly toxic defoliant used in the Vietnam War. Read More »US Filmmaker to Make Documentary About Vietnam
Article from: Dti News US filmmaker Ken Burns will produce a 10-12 hour documentary about the Vietnam(American) war. In an announcement made public on March 28, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States, said that the next Ken Burns documentary project for PBS [...] Read More »Make Agent Orange History
A short video about the legacy of Agent Orange which unfortunately continues to endure today.Let’s Make Agent Orange History. Learn more at: http://makeagentorangehistory.org Read More »
