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Why did you say "what we call" in reference to the Vietnam war? Is there another name for it? Besides the obvious name of whatever the "enemy" called it at the
by angrais 4y ago
Why did you say "what we call" in reference to the Vietnam war?
Is there another name for it? Besides the obvious name of whatever the "enemy" called it at the time?
- dctoedt 4y ago> Why did you say "what we call" in reference to the Vietnam war? I guess I was thinking that HN is a very multinational forum, and I don't know what people in other countries would call the Vietnam War. (I'm reminded of how genteel Southern ladies supposedly used to refer to the Civil War as The Late Unpleasantness.)
- yesenadam 4y agoApparently in Vietnam it's commonly called (what translates as) "Resistance War against America". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_Vietnam_War
- lefstathiou 4y agoTechnically not a “war”