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Vietnam War: U.S
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In the Vietnam War U.S. casualties rose to a total of 57,685 killed and about 153,303 wounded. At the time of the cease-fire agreement there were 587 U.S. military and civilian prisoners of war, all of whom were subsequently released. A current unofficial estimate puts the number of personnel still unaccounted for in the neighborhood of 2500.
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Three Blade reporters won the Pulitzer Prize - journalism's highest honor - yesterday for uncovering the atrocities of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit in the Vietnam War that killed unarmed civilians and children during a seven-month rampage. Michael D.
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During the Vietnam War, AT&T and the U.S. Department of Defense, once again, called on Rocky for his expertise -- this time, to make operational the communications systems in Vietnam and Thailand. From 1966 to 1969 Rocky made three six-month tours to Vietnam, visiting every military base there and in Thailand. After earning several letters of commendation for his service in Vietnam, Rocky returned to his job at Bell to complete an impressive and successful career with the company.
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(Port Arthur) - Waves of military cargo were unloaded from a U.S. Naval vessel this week at the Port of Port Arthur, the first time the port has received such cargo since the Vietnam War. The cargo included 543 pieces of equipment fresh from tour in Iraq. The project created between 250 and 300 jobs for Port Arthur and Jefferson County residents. The exercise is an effort to support the 842 Military Command headquartered at the Port of Beaumont.
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These pages help put the Vietnam War into the framework of U.S. imperialist expansion in the Pacific area after World War II. This perspective, perfectly acceptable when applied to the other major imperialist powers, such as England, France, Germany or Ja pan, is "unacceptable" and rigidly censored from the mainstream media and textbooks -- in fact, from discussion at all -- in the U.S.
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In truth, the war in Vietnam was lost on the propaganda front, in great measure due to the press's pervasive misreporting of the clear U.S. victory at Tet as a defeat. Forty years is long past time to set the historical record straight.
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