hist.g8.s.his.vietnam_war_vietnamese_own_voice
Analyze Vietnam War 1955-75 from Vietnamese + Vietnamese-American own-voice with multi-perspective US-soldier contextualization
Trace French Indochina 1858-1954 + Dien Bien Phu May 7 1954 + Geneva Accords July 21 1954; Diem 1955-63; US escalation Tonkin Gulf Resolution Aug 7 1964 + Operation Rolling Thunder March 2 1965 – Nov 1968; Tet Offensive Jan 30 1968 + Walter Cronkite Feb 27 1968; My Lai Massacre March 16 1968 (Hugh Thompson Jr. + Lawrence Colburn helicopter intervention); Phan Thi Kim Phuc 'Napalm Girl' photo June 8 1972 Nick Ut Pulitzer; Christmas bombings Dec 18-29 1972; Paris Peace Accords Jan 27 1973; US withdrawal March 29 1973; Fall of Saigon April 30 1975; Vietnamese government 1995 estimate ~3M Vietnamese dead + 58,220 US dead per Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Vietnam Veterans Memorial Maya Lin Nov 13 1982; Agent Orange ongoing intergenerational birth defects; CENTERED VIETNAMESE OWN-VOICE: Bao Ninh The Sorrow of War 1990 (NVA soldier) + Duong Thu Huong + Le Ly Hayslip 1989 When Heaven and Earth Changed Places; Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer 2015 + Nothing Ever Dies 2016; Thi Bui The Best We Could Do 2017 graphic memoir; Ocean Vuong 2019; Phan Thi Kim Phuc 2017; PAIRED US-soldier perspectives Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried 1990 + Wallace Terry Bloods 1984 + anti-war Vietnam Veterans Against the War 1967 (John Kerry 1971 testimony).
No declared successors.
- Telling Vietnam War from US-only perspective — refuses MG-14e VIETNAMESE-OWN-VOICE PROMISE; Vietnamese voices required (Bao Ninh + Viet Thanh Nguyen + Thi Bui + Le Ly Hayslip)
- Treating US withdrawal 1973 as 'losing the war' — Vietnamese perspective: war of national reunification + completion of decolonization that began 1945
- Forgetting Agent Orange + ongoing intergenerational birth defects + unexploded ordnance in Vietnam + Laos + Cambodia