Reply #6: This is not true: last U.S. troops didn’t return home until 1975. [View All]

[Johnyawl]

Look here:
Vietnam war timeline.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/timeline.htm

1973

Cease-fire Signed in Paris: A cease-fire agreement that, in the words of Richard Nixon, "brings peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia," is signed in Paris by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. The agreement is to go into effect on January 28.

End of Draft Announced

Last American Troops Leave Vietnam



Too many Americans look at those pictures of Siagon in 1975, and assume those are American combat troops on the roof top of the Embassy. Those are US Marine Corps Embassy Guards, we have them at every American Embassy in the world. The last actual combat troops left in '73.

However, your point is still valid, cyberpj; It took us four more years to get the last combat troops out of harms way.

And as old-foot-in-mouth John Kerry likes to point out, 1/2 of all the American KIAs came during that period. As did my service in Vietnam.