Nguyen van Phuoc's homepage. Lots of stories about the Vietnam war

Each night as we eat our dinners, Walter Cronkite was telling us how many American boys were killed in Vietnamese jungle. The daily body counts and our increasing, but seemingly ineffective, military build-up in the area caused the press and the public to question whether or not our role in Vietnam was justifiable. The earliest protest against the war was primarily a moral one( i.e. U.S doesn’t have the right to interfere in another country’s affairs. ) As the above situation developed, protest against the war started to center in on more practical issue – Why should we continue to sacrifice so many American lives in an unwinnable war ? No longer was only the "hippies" or counterculture generation that cried out against U.S involvement in Vietnam; the American middle class – i.e. the parents who were losing their son in jungles 8,000 miles away - started to aband together in opposition to the war. The Americans didn't support the war,so the White house had to withdraw troops. After U.S troops withdraw, the South Vietnamese troops weren't strong enough to fight with the Communists.