Inner fighting for control in Vietnam divided the country. The north’s goal was to make all of Vietnam under communist rule, the south fought to keep their democratic government. Previous, America has sent military aid and helped at an election to prevent the spread of communist rule.

It was in March 1965; President Johnson decided to send America troops. Following the incident of the North Vietnamese firing upon two American ships, Johnson used his ‘authority’ to order ground troops to Vietnam, without declaring war.

Discovering locals weren’t trustworthy, secretly help the enemy and making booby traps, the soldiers became very frustrated. Fighting a jungle war, the danger of the dropped Agent Orange and out-numbered. They questioned, ‘why are we here?’

In America, pressure was rising, ‘bring them home.’

In 1969, Nixon withdrew some but expanded the war in neighboring countries which created more protests in America.

Peace talks began in Paris January 1969. Finally in 1973, a cease-fire was agreed upon. After the US troops were withdrawn in 1975, the south surrendered. 1976- Vietnam was united as a communist country.

This loss came from the lack of leadership and support, not our boys.

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Listed Below are Veterans that Served in the Vietnam War

Johnny W. Allen ——	Russell Anderson ——	Donald Andryscezky ——
Richard Barness Army 1966-68	David B. Batker ——	Robert Baumel Army
Marlin Bavery ——	John Beasley Army	Theadore Belanus Army 1968-1970
Ralph Benjamin ——	Theodore E. Benson Marines 1963-1967	Michael S. Berry Sr. Army
Jerry L. Birchell Navy 1968-1970	George R. Black ——	William Borgrude ——
Dennis W. Brown ——	Fredric A. Brown Army 1965-1969	James P. Brown Air Guard 1964-1970
Jerry L. Brown Navy 1966-1968	William A. Brown Army	Larry M. Bryant Army 1966-1969
Philip D. Bryant ——	Steven C. Bryant Army 1967-1969	John Burgum Army
George Byrne ——	Raymond Byrne ——	George E. Caya ——
James P. Carpenter ——	James Christensen ——	Russell B. Cichy Navy/ Air Force 1966-1969
Kenneth L. Clayton ——	Leon Cloud ——	Daniel E. Cobb Army
Michael C. Condon ——	Donald S. Cook ——	Kent R. Cook Army 1963-1965
Terry Dank ——	Terry A. Dauck ——	John H. Davis Army 1965-1975
Rick L. Day ——	Ronnie G. Day Marines 1963-1967	Larry Elmer ——
Joseph Endres ——	Mark W. Everson ——	Larry Farnsworth ——
Wendell Fenestermann ——	Charles Ferrell Navy	Lee Ferrell ——
Warren Filstram Navy 1961-1965	Wayne Filstram Navy 1961-1965	Barney Flowers Air Guard
John Franklin Marines 1972-1975	Dennis E. George ——	Michael Guess ——
Gordon Haberman Army 1971-1974	James Hale Air Force	J. Hanouser Army 1967-1968
Robert Hanson Army	Corey Hardy ——	Rodney Hardy ——
David Heffron ——	Ronald Heffron ——	Darrell Helly Army
James Henderson Army 1966-1968	Stewart S. Henriksen ——	Mark J. Herrmann Army
James M. Hilgendorf Army	Harvey Holland National Guard 1965-1967	Keith R. Hollis Navy
Wayne H. Hook Army 1966-1974	Jerry R. Horn ——	James Ihlenfeldt Navy 1965-1969
Richard Ihlenfeldt ——	Mark Iverson Air Force 1972-1972	Dennis Johnson ——
Douglas Johnson ——	Richard R. Juarez ——	Kenneth L. Kaether Marines
Mayland Kannenberg ——	Gerald Kersten ——	Richard L. Kersten ——
Douglas Klagos ——	Leroy Kluever Marines	Donald M. Knable ——
Robert F. Kocovsky Army	Robert L. Kovach Army	Herbert Kraff ——
James F. Kramer Army 1968-1969	Ronnie K. Krause ——	Allen W. Kuel Army
John R. Lange ——	Oscar S. Larson Navy	Steven Lawrence Navy 1965-1999
Daniel A. Leonard Army	Robert Levin ——	Kevin Legler Army
Ivan L. Legler Navy 1966-1967	Keith James Long Army 1956-1962	Leo W. Long ——
Harold Loomis Army	George Loomis Jr. Army 1967-1969	Robert Martinson ——
Timothy Martinson ——	Thomas Martinson ——	William Martinson ——
Roger McDermott ——	Charles Meister Army 1961-1963	Dean R. Meister Army 1964-1966
Marvin J. Meister ——	Charles E Meyer Army 1965-1967	Robert F. Monson ——
David L. Morell Navy 1973-1975	Roger Mueller ——	Patrick Mullarkey Army
Robert F. Munson Army	Martin Nolet ——	Gary Nye ——
Harry L. Nye ——	Terry Nye ——	Thomas C. Olson Marines 1969-1971
Trygve D. Olsen Jr. Army 1964-1966	David Pernot Marine 1969-1971	Harvey W. Powers Army 1964-1966
William Powers ——	Ron Powers Army	Joseph R. Pozilsi ——
Irvin N. Putney ——	Jack Putney ——	Rex Putney< —— /td>
Richard Reese ——	William L. Robbins ——	John Robson ——
Galen Rosseter ——	Alfred F. Russell Army 1961-1963	David Sanner Air Guard
Thomas D. Schuld ——	Dale Schulz ——	Renald G. Scoville ——
Ronald D. Scoville ——	Ronald D. Seekins ——	Richard Severson ——
Bernard L. Slater ——	Gordon J. Stapelmann ——	Gary Stephenson Navy
Jodi L. Swanson ——	Arthur Thorton ——	Gerald Kerry Tilley Army 1975
Jerry M. Tilley ——	Kendall L. Tilley ——	Perry M. Tilley ——
Rex Tilley Marine 1973	Jimmie Trolinger ——	Dannie Trolinger ——
John Viney Air Guard	Robert Wagner Army Res. 1966-1972	Lyle D. Wanless Army 1963-1969
Rodney Weaver Army 1961-1965	Edward A. Webb Navy 1965-1969	Daniel Weltzin ——
Jennifer Whitman ——	John M. Whitman ——	Albert Wilkening Nat. Guard
Howard Williams Army	Richard D. Wilson ——	David P. Zander Army 1966-1968

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