vietnam war
40 years ago, they tried to kill each other in combat. Now they hold each other's grandchildren. Dan Cherry and New Yen Hong Me squared off in a vicious dog fight over Hanoi in 1972. In the heat of battle, Cherry managed to blast the wing off of Hong Me's jet. Hong Me ejected himself to land safely. You'd think that would've been the last these two saw of each other. Not true. Four years ago, the pair reunited in Vietnam. They've been friends ever since. Their most recent reunion took place in Minnesota, where Hong Me is in town for the Air Expo at Flying Cloud airport. The pair has been willing to put the past behind them in order to build a solid relationship. This is the fifth time ...
Probably the tipping point in American military intervention, the Vietnam War showed us that we couldn’t have our way everywhere on the globe without their being consequences. After Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam’s independence from France in 1945, the country wound up split into two halves. The North allied with the Communist Chinese and the South with the democratic nations. You may know the CliffsNotes version, but here are ten facts about Vietnam that you probably didn’t know. Separation of Church and State One thing that fanned the flames of insurgency in South Vietnam was the religious leanings of ...
