In January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year holiday known as Tet, North Vietnamese forces and the Viet Cong launched a ...

50 th anniversary of war end approaches The fall of the South Vietnam capital of Saigon ... as 50 men left York to take ...

roughly 1.9 million U.S. draftees were sent to Vietnam alongside an additional few hundred thousand deployed throughout Southeast Asia. At the beginning of the war, draft dodgers were viewed as ...

I exiled myself in Chile and Mexico for more than two years, searching for relief from the anguish of knowing my father’s intense involvement in an unjust war. I was not dodging the draft ...

A month after undergoing a physical exam in ... also did not serve in the Vietnam War, unlike many members of his generation. The ex-president received four draft deferments while an undergraduate ...

West Manchester Township’s Linda Bean has recorded the stories of about 125 Vietnam ... pre-induction draft physicals. One of the demonstrators, also ordered to undertake a physical, handed ...