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Podcast: Extreme Mortman
Episode: Memorial Day: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon
Description: 50 years ago, the Vietnam War ended.. The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army…. North Vietnam achieved its objective of reunifying Vietnam under communist rule.... There were 58,220 U.S. military fatalities …. America effectively lost the Vietnam War....
"It was a sad day to sit in the Oval Office and see on television the American troops being literally kicked off of an American embassy before it surrendered. I hope no American president goes through that experience again."
That was Gerald Ford on C-SPAN in 1998… On April 29th 1975, as President, Gerald...