* Long Tan Day, also called Vietnam Veterans ' Day ( Australia )

* 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D. C ..

The Effects of Exposure to Agent Orange on the Intellectual Functioning, Academic Achievement, Visual Motor Skill, and Activity Level of the Offspring of Vietnam War Veterans.

* Cox, Paul ; " The Legacy of Agent Orange is a Continuing Focus of VVAW ", The Veteran, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Volume 38, No. 2, Fall 2008.

The monument was created by Maya Lin who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

* 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.

She is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

In 1981, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating out 1, 441 other competition submissions.

* 1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1, 421 other entries.

* 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

* 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

Visits to war memorials such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are often seen as pilgrimages.

Steve Bracks at a Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony, August 2006

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ( VEVRAA ) states, " A Vietnam era veteran is a person who

The U. S. Census Bureau ( 2004 ) reports there are 8. 2 million " Vietnam Era Veterans ".

The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes veterans that served in the country then known as the Republic of Vietnam from February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975, as being eligible for such programs as the department's Readjustment Counseling Services program ( aka Vet Centers ).

The Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended,, was meant to try and help the veterans overcome this.

These men founded one of the first local organizations by and for Vietnam veterans in 1981 ( now known as Veterans Village ).

* Vietnam Veterans of America

* Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Coming Home converts the huge problem of the returning injured Vietnam War soldier into the chance that the injured soldier will fall in love, and when he does, the strong implication is that the larger problem is also solved.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

In 1978, Voight portrayed the paraplegic Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby's film Coming Home.

* Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day

She won her second Oscar in 1978 for Coming Home, as a Marine officer's wife who volunteers at a veterans ' hospital and becomes involved with a disabled Vietnam War veteran ( played by Jon Voight ).

For director Ashby, this was his second film about the 1960s since his 1975 film Shampoo: where in ' Shampoo ' he dealt with the beautiful people of the 1960s immersed in the good life and not thinking about Vietnam, Coming Home found others dealing with the horrors of the war and its tragic after effects.

Other Invictus singles included " Deeper and Deeper ", " You Brought the Joy ", and the Vietnam War protest song " Bring the Boys Home " ( U. S. Billboard Hot 100 # 12, 1971 ; her second gold record.

It has issued calls to " Bring Our Troops Home " in every conflict since its founding, including Vietnam.

He served as a war correspondent during the 1960s in Vietnam and Biafra, and gained a reputation for risk-taking when he took LSD in 1966 as an experiment for an article in The London Evening Standard and had a bad trip ".. this drug needs police, the Home Office and a dictator to stamp it out ..."

He also provided narration for Bill Couturie's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, a critically acclaimed war documentary that features a talented cast including Tom Berenger, Robert De Niro, Willem Dafoe, and Matt Dillon.

He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vietnam and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cambodia, Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee ( 1992 – 97 ), Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee ( 1997 – 99 ).

Aside from Shampoo, where he was by all accounts a creative adjunct to Beatty and Towne, Ashby's most commercially successful film was the Vietnam War drama Coming Home.

In 1978, Robert landed a demanding role in Hal Ashby's Oscar winning Vietnam War drama, Coming Home, which starred Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.

Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.

His most influential books featured mental adaptations that people made in extreme wartime environments: Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima ( 1967 ), Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans — Neither Victims nor Executioners ( 1973 ), and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide ( 1986 ).

* Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans — Neither Victims nor Executioners, Simon & Schuster ( New York City ), 1973.

Both the Conservatives and Labour had sent advisers to the United States to aid the rival candidates in the 1992 presidential election, and it emerged that the Conservative government had allowed Home Office press officers to search files for evidence that Clinton had applied for British citizenship to avoid the Vietnam draft while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1969 ; no evidence was found that he had.

The 347th had a short stay at Mountain Home, conducting F-111F training until October, when the 366 TFW moved from Vietnam to Mountain Home.

The 366th Fighter Wing ( in various designations ) has been the host unit at Mountain Home for over 35 years, following its return from the Vietnam War in late 1972.

Before the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing's arrival at Mountain Home, the 389th, 390th, and 391st Tactical Fighter Squadrons had returned from South Vietnam, joined the 347th, and began converting to F-111F aircraft.

De Genouilly was criticized for his actions and was replaced by Admiral Page in November, 1859, with instructions to obtain a treaty protecting the Catholic faith in Vietnam, but not to try to obtain territorial gains.

Tim Page ( born 25 May 1944 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent ) is an English photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia.

Similarly, Page was captured by the excitement and glamour of warfare, which helped contribute to the style of photographs he is acclaimed for. Page's personality and lifestyle in Vietnam have been portrayed by others.

Page himself does not shy away from the drug culture he was involved in during his time in Vietnam, devoting a large amount of his book Page after Page to it.

In Dispatches, Michael Herr wrote of Page as the most ' extravagant ' of the ' wigged-out crazies running around Vietnam ', due in most respects to the amount of drugs that he enjoyed taking.

* Chatfield, Charles, At the Hands of Historians: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era, ' Peace & Change ', Volume 29 Issue 3-4 Page 483-July 2004 PDF