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50 years today, the fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War
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Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, with nearly 58,000 losing their lives
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Fox 5's Linda Schmidt shows us how many veterans are worried the hard lessons of war are being forgotten
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The Vietnam War spawned an anti-war movement that raged across parts of this country
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Many soldiers returning from the war never heard the words, welcome home
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Instead, many of their fellow Americans called them baby killers and spat on them
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Billy Hart remembering his childhood friend, his name on the Vietnam War Memorial in Lower Manhattan
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Billy made it home from the war. His friend did not. I don't claim to be any hero, but I had the privilege of serving among heroes
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, essentially the end of the Vietnam War
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For many of us images like these are seared into our memories The last American helicopter on the roof of the American embassy prepares to lift off the last of the evacuees fleeing before the advancing communist army THE CITY IS TAKING THEM TO THE CITY THE CITY IS TAKING THEM TO THE CITY THE CITY IS TAKING THEM TO THEM TO THEM TO THEM TO THE CITY THE LAST AMERICAN HELICOPTER
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ON THE ROOF OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY PREPARES TO LIFT OFF THE LAST OF THE EVACUEEES
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FLEEING BEFORE THE ADVANCING COMMUNIST ARMAGE. HELICOPTERS ON THE ROOF OF THE U.S. EMBASSY AS SOUTH
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VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS SCALED THE WALLS BEGGING TO BE EVACUATED BEFORE THE CITY
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FELL TO THE COMMUNIST NORTH pitted many Americans against one another. Please don't disrespect us and call us baby killers. You
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know, we just stood the watch for freedom's sake. I didn't talk about I was in the army for about
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10 or 20 years. I never mentioned it. I never wore the uniform. Many Vietnam veterans still carry the
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scars of that rejection. Our motto is pretty much never let what happened to us happen to other
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So on this day, 50 years later, welcome home, soldier. Welcome home
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In Lower Manhattan, Linda Schmidt, Fox 5 News. Well said. It was a tragedy how they were received when they came home
