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Vietnam '67

Historians, veterans and journalists recall 1967 in Vietnam, a year that changed the war and changed America.

Historians, veterans and journalists recall 1967 in Vietnam, a year that changed the war and changed America.

Highlights

  1. PhotoAmerican soldiers watching helicopters landing as part of Operation Pershing in South Vietnam in 1967.
    CreditPatrick Christain/Getty Images

    Vietnam: The War That Killed Trust

    The legacy of the war still shapes America, even if most of us are too young to remember it.

    By Karl Marlantes

  2. PhotoA Vietnam veteran in Washington.
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    A Pale Smoke

    Fifty years later, what does the Vietnam War mean? And how should we remember the men and women who served in it?

    By David Gerstel

  3. PhotoPresident Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Humphrey’s advice that the United States should pull back on the Vietnam War nettled Johnson.
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    The Tragedy of Hubert Humphrey

    If he had won in 1968, the Vietnam War would have ended sooner, and America would be a much different place today.

    By Michael Brenes

  4. PhotoThe last journalists leaving Saigon in April 1975.
    CreditHerve Gloaguen/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images

    How Vietnam Changed Journalism

    There’s a new generation of reporters who take nothing for granted because of what they know about that war.

    By Andrew Pearson

  1. The End of South Vietnam

    I barely made it out after the fall of Saigon. It was 20 years before I went back.

    By Dien Huynh

  2. Was the Vietnam War Necessary?

    Lyndon Johnson said the alternative might be a nuclear war. But even the C.I.A. disagreed.

    By Mark Atwood Lawrence

  3. How Vietnam Broke the Democratic Party

    The war split the left, exposing tensions over foreign policy that remained for decades.

    By Michael Nelson

  4. My Vietnam War

    As a young woman, I wasn’t sent into combat. But I still fought the war at home.

    By Nancy Biberman

  5. Why Were the Russians in Vietnam?

    There were in fact remarkable parallels between American and Soviet involvement in Vietnam.

    By Sergey Radchenko

  6. What Was the Vietnam War About?

    Was it about anti-Communism? Civil war? Anti-colonialism? The answer matters, and not just to historians.

    By Christian G. Appy

  7. Why Lyndon Johnson Dropped Out

    He had known for years that the Vietnam War would destroy him. In March 1968, it did.

    By Fredrik Logevall

  8. Vietnam Wasn’t Just an American War

    In American novels and films about the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese remain minor characters.

    By Lan Cao

  9. The Chopper Pilots

    I made over 50 helicopter assaults during Vietnam. Each one had a story.

    By Bill Lord

  10. The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.

    Unexploded cluster munitions and Agent Orange continue to wreak havoc in the country, but America won’t help.

    By Ariel Garfinkel