Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords that ended the U.S. war against Vietnam.
in popular culture, that U.S. soldiers were spat upon. “There’s no evidence that it happened,” he told. Instead, the myth only gained salience in the 1990s, when conservative politicians and war hawks invoked it to build consent for U.S. imperial ventures in Iraq and elsewhere.GIs to help build a movement of antiwar protest that went deep into the U.S. military — a “strong GI movement against the war in Vietnam,” as Lembcke said.
Lembcke says another area of mythology centers around former U.S. POWs in Vietnam, who have been depicted as zealously pro-war and wantonly tortured by the Vietnamese. Lembcke says both of these depictions are false.
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