Название: The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?
Автор: John Marciano
Издательство: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 158367585X
Год: 2016
Язык: английский
Страниц: 197
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 1.4 MB
On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese – soldiers, parents, grandparents, children – also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history barely stops to record the millions of Vietnamese who lived on after being displaced, tortured, maimed, raped, or born with birth defects, the result of devastating chemicals wreaked on the land by the U.S. military.