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Three Servicemen Statue South is a non-profit organization with plans to bring a bronze sculpture of the famed Three Servicemen Statue Vietnam Memorial to Apalachicola, Florida. The Three Servicemen Statue in Washington, D.C. gives a human face to the 58,235 names inscribed nearby on The Wall Of Honor. The Apalachicola project will honor Vietnam Veterans and veterans of all American wars. For more information, please contact the office at 850/653-1318.
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South Vietnam went through many political changes during its short life. Initially, the nation was a constitutional monarchy, with Emperor Bao Dai as Head of State. The Vietnamese monarchy was unpopular ... largely because monarchical leaders were considered collaborators during French rule.
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The Vietnam War, the first televised war, pitted South Vietnam and the United States against Communist North Vietnam. It was feared that the fall of South Vietnam would lead to the fall of other South East Asian nations to Communism as well, in what was known as the "Domino Effect." Yet, at the same time, it was feared that extensive military involvement would lead to Chinese and Soviet intervention, resulting in a nuclear World War III. And the antiwar movement defined a generation of Americans.
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In March 1965 the first American ground troops arrived in south Vietnam. Congress supported the president's actions at that time. However, the number of Americans who opposed the war began to grow. These people said the war was a civil war. They said the United States had no right, or reason, to intervene. For six days in May, the United States halted air attacks on North Vietnam.
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Peace talks between representatives from United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the NLF had been taking place in Paris since January, 1969. By 1972, Nixon, like Johnson before him, had been gradually convinced that a victory in Vietnam was unobtainable.
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President Johnson believed that the United States had to support South Vietnam. Many other Americans agreed. They believed that without American help, South Vietnam would become communist. Then, all of Southeast Asia would become Communist, too. As Johnson's term began, his military advisers told him the Communists were losing the war. They told him that north Vietnamese troops and Viet.
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