Messed Up Things From The Vietnam War

Five decades after it ended, the Vietnam War remains one of the most divisive, terrible, and tragic events in American history - even though America wasn’t involved at the war’s start. In 1945 a French-backed Vietnamese emperor gained power, and Communist honcho Ho Chi Minh mounted an uprising that gave rise to North Vietnam via the First Indochina War, wresting control away from French colonizers in 1954. Just a year later, the war resumed. The Vietnam War would rage for 20 more years, pulling the Americans and Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon ever deeper into a moral morass filled with messed up things that would change the way the world thought about America, and how Americans thought about themselves, forever.