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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 Armyβ¦. North Vietnam achieved its objective of reunifying Vietnam under communist rule.... There were 58,220 U.S. military fatalities β¦. 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 1998β¦ On April 29th 1975, as President, Gerald...