Is today 45th anniversary of Vietnam War?

On March 29, Americans will come together to commemorate the service and sacrifices made by the nearly 3 million service members who served in Vietnam.

Are there still dead bodies in Vietnam?

Of the 177 whose deaths have been confirmed, the remains of 51 have been located and identified; efforts continue to recover the remaining 126. U.S. and Vietnamese specialists met in Hanoi last year to discuss Last Known Alive cases in Vietnam, as well as in Cambodia and Laos.

How many South Vietnamese died after the US left?

In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides and some 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died.

How many Vietnam combat veterans are still alive?

It took a toll on a generation of some nine million members of our armed forces who served during a 20 year period from 1955-1975. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 7.2 million are living today.

Are there still American soldiers in Vietnam?

Since the war’s end, official U.S. government investigations have consistently concluded that no military personnel remain alive in Vietnam.

What was life like in the south during the Vietnam War?

In the South, by contrast, people had access to international news on the radio and popular ballads mourned the sadness of war—perhaps reflecting more ambivalent attitudes there. Nor was there any North Vietnamese equivalent to the organized and highly visible anti-war movement in the United States.

How many North Vietnamese soldiers died in the Vietnam War?

It made no mention of the estimated 1.1 million North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas who died — a common omission, according to locals I spoke to. “It’s war, so Americans have propaganda and we have it too. It’s inevitable,” retired high-school teacher Le Van Bon, 81, told me.

Do young people in Vietnam still care about the war?

“Most young people nowadays don’t really care about what happened. They just want to have fun.” Forty years after millions of Vietnamese were killed in the war, in which more than 58,000 Americans also died, locals I’ve spoken with bear little animosity toward the United States.

What happened to the Việt Minh after the Vietnam War?

About 90,000 Việt Minh were evacuated to the North while 5,000 to 10,000 cadre remained in the South, most of them with orders to refocus on political activity and agitation. The Saigon-Cholon Peace Committee, the first Việt Cộng front, was founded in 1954 to provide leadership for this group.