On this day in 1975, North Vietnamese troops entered the capital of South Vietnam and captured it, ending a 29-year civil war.
It is also a sad day for America, as our august Congress essentially abandoned the South Vietnamese to their fate by refusing to fund their efforts to fight off the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. We evacuated our diplomatic and military personnel left there after the 1973 withdrawal of our troops, and took along what Vietnamese civilians we could (hence the photo).
Those on the left would have you believe that Iraq is another Vietnam (as they did with Desert Storm): “because of Vietnam we’re no good, we’re evil, all Communists and Islamists are good, blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda.”
To which I say, BS!