On Wednesday ( Apr 30 ), Vietnam will celebrate the end of the Vietnam War with a grand military parade and an air show 50 years after Saigon’s fall, the event that marked the end of the decades-long conflict.
The government’s reconciliation took place on April 30, 1975, when Communist-led North Vietnam seized Saigon, the money of the US-backed South, and gave its name Ho Chi Minh City shortly after the war in honor of the North’s foundation head.
To Lam, the head of Vietnam’s socialist party and government’s best president, said on Wednesday, citing one of Ho Chi Minh’s mottos,” Vietnam is one, the Asian people are one.”” It was a victory of justice over tyranny. The truth did not change: rivers may dried up and mountains may erode.
The triumph marked the end of a 20-year issue that resulted in the deaths of about 3 million Vietnamese and almost 60, 000 Americans, many of whom were young soldiers who were conscripted into the military, about two years after Washington withdrew its final battle troops from the country.
” Communist troops practically rolled into the South Vietnamese capital, much to the great reduction of the people, who had feared a terrible last-minute war,” read a wire from one of the Reuters reporters in the area on the day it fell.
The cable described the “formidably armed” army as consisting of barefoot teenagers as well as “formidably armed” troops wearing jungle green fatigues.