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2005 marked the 30^th anniversary of the end of the War in Vietnam, one of America's most frustrating and poorly understood military conflicts. During the summer of 2005, then-WDVA Secretary John A. Scocos revisited the history and the stories of Vietnam to include some of the battles, some of the Wisconsin stories, and some of the lessons of Vietnam by publishing 15 separate columns.
 

1. Introduction
    
2. The Myths of Vietnam
      
3. Dien Bien Phu: The "Real" Anniversary of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
    
4. The Kennedy Years: Advisers
    
5. Vietnam: The American War
    
6. Vietnam: The War of the Big Battalions
    
7. TET: Military Victory; Political Defeat
    
8. Looming Over the Battlefield: The "War at Home"
    
9. Thunder Rolls: Testing American Military Might
    
10. Vietnam: Wisconsin's Heroes
     
11. Vietnam 30 years ago: President Nixon "Vietnamizes" the war
     
12. U.S. troops combined with technology produced a new, lethal force
     
13. POWs show courage in a war without rules
     
14. "Peace with Honor": U.S. Withdrawal
     
15. "The end: America withdraws, the South collapses"
     
16. Conclusion

Note: The columns are posted using pdf (Portable Document Format) files. This allows anyone with an Acrobat Reader to view and print the file from all major computer platforms. If you do not already have an Acrobat Reader program, click on the link below to download the current version free.