A Brief Bit About The Vietnam War

Considering most of this blog is to talk about the Vietnam War and my experiences revolving around it, I decided I would explain the war a bit for those of you who don't know much about it. The Vietnam war took place around the Cold War era. It was a fight between North and South Vietnam(supported by the United States). The main reason for the fighting was communism. North Vietnam wanted to reunify the whole country as a communist nation, but South Vietnam (also known as Vietcong at the time) wanted nothing to do with that. Although the conflict had been going on for many years before, the actual war began in 1954, and ended a whopping 25 years later, with over 3 million deaths. The war had continued while the Cold War began to arise as well, and by 1969 (the peak of the United States involvement) the conflict wasn't only between countries. Conflict began arising from fellow Americans, protesters of the war. These protesters glared upon soldiers who had anything to do with Vietnam, including me. And after all that trouble, President Nixon just ended up pulling our forces out completely. The war ended a few years later, by communist forces taking control of Saigon, ending the war and united the two Vietnams as one again in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war had been an extremely bloody battle, resulting in a record amount of deaths. (more than half being Vietnam residents.) -Richard Clubb