I want to know about Vietnam history. Pls help me!?
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam\n\nTry these..Hope it helps..
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Fialko David Andrew Jr  PFC  Marines  Bridgeport  CT  November 14, 1968  S.Vietnam  December 4, 1949  hostile, killed \nSOURCE: Combat Area Casualties Current Files (CACCF) (machine-readable record), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330.  \n\nOnly 19 years old..... *sigh*\n\nYou may find these sites helpful as a beginning (in order of relevance, the first one contained the above):\nhttp://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/vietnam.php\nhttp://www.geocities.com/tlwolf98/marine16.html\nhttp://www.vetfriends.com/?source=google500c\nhttp://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib64.htm\n\nMany states maintain an archive such as this:\nhttp://www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/nv-alpha.html\n\n\nHowever, the US depatment of Veteran's Affairs will be the place to request detailed information from. Remember, they will only be likely to provide information already available to the public. If you know what state David was from, you can contact the department local to him.
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The Causes of the Vietnam War\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAndrew J. Rotter\n\nMost American wars have obvious starting points or precipitating causes: the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, the capture of Fort Sumter in 1861, the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950, for example. But there was no fixed beginning for the U.S. war in Vietnam. The United States entered that war incrementally, in a series of steps between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.\n\nPresident John F. Kennedy rounded another turning point in early 1961, when he secretly sent 400 Special Operations Forces-trained (Green Beret) soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese how to fight what was called counterinsurgency war against Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional (not actual) declaration of war: the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Then, in February and March 1965, Johnson authorized the sustained bombing, by U.S. aircraft, of targets north of the 17th parallel, and on 8 March dispatched 3,500 Marines to South Vietnam. Legal declaration or no, the United States was now at war.\n\nThe multiple starting dates for the war complicate efforts to describe the causes of U.S. entry. The United States became involved in the war for a number of reasons, and these evolved and shifted over time. Primarily, every American president regarded the enemy in Vietnam--the Vietminh; its 1960s successor, the National Liberation Front (NLF); and the government of North Vietnam, led by *Ho Chi Minh--as agents of global communism. U.S. policymakers, and most Americans, regarded communism as the antithesis of all they held dear. Communists scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. If it took hold in one nation, U.S. policymakers expected contiguous nations to fall to communism, too, as if nations were dominoes lined up on end. In 1949, when the Communist Party came to power in China, Washington feared that Vietnam would become the next Asian domino. That was one reason for Truman's 1950 decision to give aid to the French who were fighting the Vietminh,\n\nTruman also hoped that assisting the French in Vietnam would help to shore up the developed, non-Communist nations, whose fates were in surprising ways tied to the preservation of Vietnam and, given the domino theory, all of Southeast Asia. Free world dominion over the region would provide markets for Japan, rebuilding with American help after the Pacific War. U.S. involvement in Vietnam reassured the British, who linked their postwar recovery to the revival of t
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It was the Vietnam War.  Millions of gallons were used.  A whole lot.  Look it up on Wikipedia or do a google search.
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U.S. military advisors first became involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when they began to assist French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisors assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN. Large numbers of American combat troops began to arrive in 1965 and the last left the country in 1973.\n\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/
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True,true.\n\nGood Point.Only dont expect a bunch of overweight rednecks to actually learn anything from Vietnam.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ghost+stories&meta=\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ghost+stories+vietnamese&btnG=Search\n\nwww.dailyping.com/archive/2000/11/05/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Colombia\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia#History
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Hate to tell you Navy Officer, there were no insurgents in Iraq bedore we got there.\n\nAnd your pious attitude about the death of American Soldiers for illigeyimate reasons is sickening. Pick up a rifle my man and jump on a land mine.\n\nAnd your Vietnam statements are even worse. I didn't see you there! Nixon Withdrew the troops.\n\nSource:\n15th Field Artillery Regiment\nWWI WW2 Korea Vietnam\nPanama Bosnia Iraq\nVietnam War Timeline\n"An individual's political beliefs depend on when\nhe became politically aware."\nAUTHOR UNKNOWN\n\n1970 - War Powers - By the time Congress learned that the naval incident leading to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) had been misrepresented and moved to repeal the resolution in 1970, President Nixon had already shifted to another legal rationale -- his constitutional powers as "Commander in Chief" -- for his Vietnam policies. In its 1969 "national commitments" resolution, the Senate made a bid to reassert a congressional voice in decisions committing the US to the defense of foreign countries. The House passed war-powers measures in 1970, 1971 and 1972.\n27 Jan 73 - Official end of the Vietnam War.   Between 27 Jan and 29 Mar 73, a total of 587 military and civilian prisoners were released by the North Vietnamese, and during that same period, 23,500 US troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam\n29 Mar 73 - 67 more US P.O.W.'s were freed in Hanoi. The same day, the US withdrew its remaining 2,500 troops from South Vietnam. This date also marked the actual end of military involvement in Vietnam.\n10 May 73 - Due to continued bombing of Laos and Cambodia, the House voted (219-188) for the first time to cut-off Indochina funds\n31 May 73 - The Senate took strong action prohibiting the use of any funds appropriated by Congress to be used for combat activities in Laos or Cambodia\n7 Nov 73 - War Powers Act - Congress dealt President Nixon a stunning setback when it voted to override his veto of legislation limiting presidential powers to commit US forces abroad without congressional approval.   Congress, with the Vietnam War and the showdown over continued bombing in Cambodia behind it, was anxious to reassert its role in the conduct of the country's foreign affairs"\n\nYou have no idea of the total mess we have made in Iraq and in the world community.
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You might find this web site useful: "The Vietnam Conflict: Coming Home, by Bill Hunt."
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_war
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This may seem too simple, but the best way to find the information that you're looking for is to talk to other Vietnam Vets. Good places to find them is at a local VFW or a Veteran's hospital. \n\nMy father server in Vietnam as well, and has only recently opened up about what happened to him there. I've herd the same happening with many other Vietnam Vets too. Something about the recent Iraq War has triggered many of them to talk after more than 30 years of wanting to forget about what happened. \n\nI have family in Vietnam to include uncles that served on both sides of the war. They seem to be easier about letting the past go than the American veterans. One of my uncles served almost ten years in a communist prison, had all his arms and legs broken many times and had his eye ripped out of his head. Even he has let the war go into the past. \n\nAnotehr good place to look is the Internet. There are hundreds of Web sites that haev very good information about the Vietnam War with the ones supported by veterans having the most accurate information. Don't bother with the government supported sites - they're still lying aobut what happened. \n\nGood luck with your reseasrch!
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Even though I support trade, and full diplomatic recognition of Vietnam.....there's a lot of unanswered questions.\n\nMia's need to be accounted for.....BEFORE we have full ties to Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict was a somber tale in our history. The brave Americans that died there need to be brought home.
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A nice Web site on Vietnam is: http://www.deanza.edu/faculty/swensson/kieu.html\n\nI have never heard of a national animal or even flower. I spent 12 years in Vietnam from 1972 to 1974. I know more about Vietnam than most Americans and EVEN to include the Ambassadors that were there. I was with the people, I spoke fluent Vietnamese. I have a book manuscript that I wrote on Vietnam though not yet published. I could not tell you in this small space about Vietnam.\n\nIt is a beautiful country and the people are so gracious. I think it is a paradise.
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Have a look through these links and see if anyone stands out.\n\nUnited States in Vietnam 1945-1975\nComprehensive Timelines with Quotes and Analysis\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/\n\nhttp://www.vietnampix.com/\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html\n\nIn the 1950's the United States began to send troops to Vietnam. During the following 25-years the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Almost 3 million US men and women were sent thousands of miles to fight for what was a questionable cause. In total, it is estimated that over 2,5 million people on both sides were killed.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VietnamWar.htm\n\nADDITIONAL VIETNAM LINKS ON THE WEB\n\nhttp://www.multied.com/vietnam/Links.html\n\nAnti War Movement.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/27942/indexf.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Here is a nice timeline with root causes of the Vietnam War
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try this website.  it will also do vietnamese to english.