Obama Begins Commemoration of Vietnam Era
Posted on AllSides May 28th, 2012
From The Left
WASHINGTON  Barack Obama was still in the crib, just 5 months old, when American helicopters swooped out of Saigon into the jungle in January 1962 carrying South Vietnamese troops on a raid. It was the first time American forces participated in major combat in Vietnam, opening a chapter in history that reverberates to this day.
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