To win, he would not only have to beat some of Vietnam’s best long-distance runners but also Kenya’s Edwin Kiptoo – a fellow East African who ... Ethiopia – a country that has produced ...

As the modern-day Socialist Republic of Vietnam prepares to celebrate half a century of victory in what it refers to as the “Resistance War Against America to Save the Country,” the Vietnamese ...

The end of the Vietnam War was also a turning point for protest songs - The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from ...

The past several weeks might have been tumultuous or even existential for a lot of U.S. businesses caught up in trade wars, ...

As the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and a white American father, she believes the Vietnam War had a profound impact ... "repair the social fabric of our country through connection and ...

Compounded with civilian deaths, the estimated death toll from the war in Vietnam stands conservatively at 3.1 million people. For the victorious communist forces, they were left with a country in ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 6 (UPI) --While the Vietnam War has been revisited countless ... States engaged [in Vietnam] is a very different country than the America that emerged after the ...

This sense of betrayal hasn’t been so visceral since 1971, when a group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged a demonstration ... wedge between Jewish and African American communities ...

Chuck Searcy, an American Vietnam War veteran who has worked on humanitarian programs in the country since 1995, said he worries that trust built over years could erode very rapidly. He pointed ...

Much of its tropical forest was irrevocably damaged, while the herbicide also leached the soil of nutrients in some of Vietnam’s most climate-vulnerable areas. In the decades after the war ended, the ...

and operations of the war, as well as its emotional impact. The “In Country” portion of our exhibit focuses on those serving in Vietnam. Veteran Pat Clark lent two objects that brought him ...