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U.S. Combat Troops Leave South Vietnam

Back in the day on March 29th, 1973, the last remaining U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam. The withdrawal followed a Paris peace accord that was struck two months prior between the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Vietcong. It was also two years to the date after Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty for his role in the My Lai Massacre. The uncovering of such atrocities helped turned public opinion against the ever increasingly unpopular war pressuring President Nixon to act. Though combat troops left, hostilities between the North and the South continued until April 30th, 1975 when Saigon fell and the last remaining U.S. personnel were airlifted out. In the end, the decades long conflict claimed the lives of more than 58,000 U.S. soldiers and at least two million Vietnamese.

And as James Loewen noted in his classic “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” the United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietnam as it dropped in all the theaters of World War II.

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