April 30, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, so I’m marking the occasion by reflecting on the war’s meaning all these decades later. I share my own experiences as a historian of the war, along with some clips from books and documentaries that I think capture the impossible decisions the war forced upon millions of people.

Check out the podcast series created by Willa Seidenberg and Bill Short, A Matter of Conscience: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War

Listen to NAM-TV, my documentary series on Vietnam

Buy my book, Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouse and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era

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