“THE MEN WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM—AMERICAN AND SOUTH VIETNAMESE—WERE HEROES. They didn’t lose. They were betrayed:”
South Vietnam didn’t fall because it was beaten. It fell because it was betrayed.
Fifty-one years ago today, April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter lifted off the Saigon embassy roof.
We had won. Nixon and Kissinger’s Paris Peace Accords forced the North to recognize… pic.twitter.com/LF0F7DpOz7
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) April 30, 2026