Description
“What are we over here fighting for?” An American soldier asked this query throughout the Vietnam War. Many other American soldiers and citizens wondered the similar thing. The conflict started when america sent armed forces to defend South Vietnam against Communist North Vietnam. It used to be supposed to be a brief military operation, nevertheless it ended as a bloody, twelve-year conflict during which thousands of American soldiers were killed. Writer Deborah Kent examines this tragic and controversial period in American history from the primary Marines arriving at Da Nang to the final airlift out of Saigon.