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Article: Vietnam the war that's still with us: more than three decades after the last soldiers came home, the longest war in American history still casts a long shadow.(TIMES PAST)
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- New York Times Upfront
- Article date:
- February 19, 2007
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BACKGROUND
Thirty years after the Last American soldier Left Vietnam, the echoes of that war stilt reverberate in the U.S. During the 2004 presidential election, President Bush and Senator John Kerry had to explain their actions during the war. And today many are asking whether Iraq is becoming "another Vietnam."
Is the U.S. headed for "another Vietnam" in Iraq? It s a question posed often in the media, and it's just one example of the hold that the Vietnam War still exerts on the U.S. more than 30 years after it ended.
The longest war in American history, Vietnam divided the nation like nothing since the Civil War. More than 58,000 American ...
