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In the US people don't discuss that. The idea is that if nobody remembers, they won't know that the war was lost.

• vmception 6y ago
  My experience has been different. It was a wildly unpopular war with poor people being sent into a meat grinder. And its the one with the pervasive urban legend about returning soldiers being spat on. Vietnam is still a single-party state run by a self titled Communist Party that follows Marxist teachings while adopting the more modern state-capitalist approach. This is the opposite of American values and the exact outcome the Americans were there to prevent. Although the consequences have been largely muted. I also see memes about it almost every day. I saw a video on instagram about Muhammad Ali talking about the absurdity of people being sent into that war.
  • coliveira 6y ago
    You're right that people remember the opposition to the war. But that's exactly why they don't accept that the war is lost. In American's minds, the war was opposed, and they think that was the reason why it ended. When in fact it was just the opposite. Vietnam won that war of invasion fair and square, with the sacrifice of millions of Vietnamese for their country. Because of that, the American people was unwilling to send more of their children to be killed in Vietnam. The result of the protests is that the government created the illusion that they were retreating because people didn't want to continue the war, not because they lost.