left vietnam. he said during the midnight and -- during the mid-1960's when singapore had become independent deciding which way to go communist or capitalist, he said mainly based on the american participation in vietnam they went the capitalist model. i had never heard that before. i don't know if you heard that or what your comments or reaction might be. >> the ambassador of singapore was here and talked about the independence of singapore and whether they would choose to be a communist or free country. they looked to what happened in vietnam and decided to go with the capitalist model. >> they look to the u.s. participation in vietnam which he said was influential in their deciding to go with the capitalistic model. >> they looked at the u.s. involvement in vietnam and decided to go the capitalist route. have any of the panelists heard of this before? any thoughts on that? >> i was too young, 24, 25 years old. i don't know much about the politics. >> one million people left their home in the nor

left vietnam. what he said during the mid-60s when singapore had become independent, deciding which way to go communist or capitalist. and he said mainly based on the u.s. participation of vietnam they went the capitalist model. i never heard that before. i didn't know if you heard that or what your comments might be on that. what the reaction might be. >> so the question was the ambassador. talked about the independence for singapore and whether or not they were choosing to be a communist country or free country. and they looked to be what happened at vietnam and decided to go with the capitalist model. >> they looked at the u.s. participation in vietnam, which is what he said was influential and going to the more capitalistic model. >> i'll repeat what he said. they looked at the u.s. involvement in vietnam and they decided to go with the capitalist route. have any of the panelists heard about that? thoughts on that? >> i don't know much about politics. >> i think 1 million people in the home to

marines landed in south vietnam, marking the start of the u.s. ground war in vietnam. that same day, in alabama, state troopers beat back civil rights protesters in selma trying to walk over the edmund pettus bridge. weeks later, the first teach-in against the vietnam war was held at the university of michigan. by 1968, the u.s. had half a million troops in vietnam. the war continued until april 1975. some scholars estimate as many as 3.8 million vietnamese died during the war, up to 800,000 perished in cambodia, another one million in laos. the u.s. death toll was 58,000. today we spend the hour airing highlights from a recent conference titled "vietnam: the power of protest." it was held at the new york avenue presbyterian church in washington, d.c. speakers included former oakland congressmember ron dellums, who chaired the armed services committee. colorado's pat schroeder, one of the youngest women ever elected to congress. tom hayden, who helped to found sds, students for a democratic society and wayne smith, who served as a combat medic during vietnam. democracy

the first reality is that north vietnam has attacked the independent nation of south vietnam. its object is total conquest. of course some of the people of south vietnam are participating in attack on their own government, but trained men and supplies, orders and arms, flow in a constant stream from north to south. this support is the heartbeat of the war. and it is a war of unparalleled brutality. simple farmers are the targets of assassination and kidnapping. women and children are strangled in the night because their men are loyal to their government. and helpless villages are ravaged by sneak attacks. large-scale raids are conducted on towns and terror strikes in the heart of cities. the confused nature of this conflict cannot mask the fact that it is the new face of an old enemy. over this war and all asia is another reality. the deepening shadow of communist china. the rulers in hanoi are urged on by peaking. this is a regime which has destroyed freedom in tibet, which has attacked india and has been condemned by the united nations for aggression in korea. it is a nation

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growing up with my dad, he is a vietnam veteran who served two tours in vietnam.o wake him up. i always had to call his name. he always told me never to touch him. he never talked much about his experiences, but one day out of the blue, he talked about his experience and about what happened to him during his time there. i do not know why but he always kept his experiences quiet, and one day let it out. i was wondering if the author has any comments on the life experiences of those who have served. on the colin powell doctrine, he has used the vietnam legacy as a basic ideology of not going into the war, but go again with all forces necessary to win the war. if that wasn't the case, then he wasn't on board with it, and i think bush gave him the authorization to do that. i think we were successful with the overwhelming force, but that particular strategy has not been used in subsequent encounters with afghanistan or isis. i was wondering, if we use that kind of approach that we used in world war ii, could we win the war because of the media coverage? host: i want to

what has been the legacy of vietnam? have we learned our lesson from vietnam? my answer is a few lessons we learned, i've mentioned a few but some we have not. the deceptions on warmaking continue. clearly. all we have to do is look at the iraq war and the deceptions that took place with regard to that. we were driven into the iraq war by deliberate deceptions by the president and his top staff. and that, by the way, in terms of accountability is similar to the vietnam war. there has been a total refusal to hold anyone accountable, not only to hold anyone accountable, but even to know the facts. there has been no investigation by the united states of the decision to go to war in iraq. by the way, little netherlands had a big inquiry. they appointed a former chief justice of the supreme court to take a look at how it happened that the netherlands went to war. they found, by the way, lying by the prime minister to the parliament. some of the same things that happened here, but they exposed it. we have done nothing. ok, we still have presidential overreaching with

this is vietnam -- who says vietnam was a loss? doesn't that depend on how you define victory?uest: this often comes up for people who served in vietnam not always, but often it does. i think it is a valid question. it depends on what you define victory. i think people can argue that the reason the war cannot continue was because congress pulled the funding. we could've have one had a continued. it is hard to know what would've happened if the funding had continued. i think that we are saying in the book that it was like a defeat. at was -- that was how was perceived. that was how the president subsequently proceeded. as a result, i think that i see the caller's point. people to find out that way. i respect the position of people who would say that i do not define it that way. but i think in the book we are. host: let us bring in some vietnam veterans. we have special lines for them. charles is a vietnam veteran from louisiana. good morning. you're on with marvin and deborah kalb. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. i served in vietnam from 1971-1972. i retir

and we learned -- be talking about vietnam, we found in vietnam if you don't have the right strategy air power is minimal in its affect. but we need to have more air controllers, special forces, we need to have more of those kind of raids that we're so successful in to sear california we need to have a strategy. there is no strategy. anybody that says that there is i'd like to hear what it is. because it certainly isn't apparent now and right now we are seeing these horrible reports, executing people and leaving their bodies in the streets. meanwhile, the president of the united states is saying that the biggest enemy we have is climate change. >> schieffer: you know, senator, the president called these latest setbacks, he called them technical setbacks. something to that affect. there's no appetite in this country, i think it's fair to say for sending a lot more american troops into iraq. but is that in the end going to be necessary, i guess the reason i would ask you that, is this posing a threat to our national security? >> first of all there is a larger number of americans that b

a few years after the vietnam war ended, china and vietnam fought another war. i was there at the time. it was a brief for that vietnam one. i want to say something about the irony of this. the united states was so worried about china, and our desire to fight vietnam, it is important to remember that after president nixon went to china in 1972, all of a sudden, whatever china wanted, china got. we were now playing a different global politics. we were playing china against russia. let's remember when pol pot was to be seated in the u.n., china wanted us to vote for the seating of that genocidal dictator. guess what? we voted for that. a shocking and shameful thing. that was our fear about china. we were worried about china in the end, we were there yo-yo at the end of a string. an irony worth pointing out. it was an arrogant belief, not only ignorance, but arrogance motivated our actions. it was an arrogant belief that the united states could not lose. the french lost. but that is france. nothing to do with us. we were and are invincible. we also have arrogance t

, their vietnam. i'm john hart. good night for nbc news. announcer: next, a panel of historians looks at the reconstruction era and the different way it has been viewed over time. the panel examines a reconstruction in tennessee and how many citizens reacted more positively to the government than their southern counterparts. tennessee was the last of the southern states to join the confederacy, and its population -- a significant portion of the state's population remained loyal to the union throughout the civil war. this 90 minute event took place in knoxville, tennessee. laura: good afternoon, welcome to the afternoon session of reconstruction tennessee. i serve on the sesquicentennial commission. as a representative of middle

i think it was 40 or 50% that gay people came to vietnam.s a gay friendly destination. and the big -- more, bigger tour companies, they also advertise. like to get married, gay travel companies, and they advertise more and more as vietnam is gay friendly destination. >> we opened in 2001. the first country in the world. and i always, um, wanted to help to open the marriage. and we tried to promote a gay business association so we can organize and talk about what we want, what we want to change, and that we have a chain of if you travel in vietnam, stay here in the hotel, i want to go to another place, and there you have a gay friendly hotel, you can stay there. so it's a little bit more organized. >> anne said he wants to expand his business network in vietnam and eventually build a chain of gay friendly businesses in southeast asia. ♪ ♪ >> the l & g beer club used to cater mostly to gay men. but the new owner nguyen purchased it a year ago and re-opened it as a place specifically for lesbians and bisexuals. establishments such as this, targ

he was the ambassador in vietnam.had convinced himself the communists would accept a negotiated settlement to the latest hostilities. but he simply had not considered that the war would ever be lost. how could he? graham martin was a cold warrior in the old stripe. he had lost an adopted son in vietnam. it wasn't in his constitution to admit that the war was finished. he would not surrender to the godless communists. >> but the communists were intent on taking sy saigon. north vietnamese target ed saigon around the clock. key cities like hue and saigon, in just weeks they had captured the northern half of the country and owe obliterated half of the south vietnamese army. >> i flew into the embattled areas soon after the inevitable had happened, and i saw the south vietnamese retreating into the sea throwing away their uniforms. it was a horrible part. bad leadership on president's part. >> the north vietnamese had surrounded saigon. before sneff and his colleagues could leave vietnam they had to protect their life's w

professor mcadams, what's a roughrider in the vietnam era? >> guest: a roughrider in the vietnam e era were from the first marine division. and we ran the trucks up and down highway 1. right out of da nang, south to hoi january and an boy and north through the notorious and stretchous pass to -- [inaudible] and points north. anybody who went on those convoy s through one of the dangerous passes in vietnam they just nicknamed us the roughriders. and it was sometime in, before i got there in '66 or '67 that when i got there they told me i'm going to the 11th motor transport battalion, those are the roughriders. >> host: first of all, what is highway 1? >> guest: highway 1 was the main highway in vietnam that stretched from the delta which is the -- [inaudible] through the central highlands and then into i corps which is where i was from da nang all the way north to the dm,mz. and it was the main highway. it was just called highway 1. i believe it's still called highway 1. >> host: and what was your job? >> guest: my job was the convoy commander

and vietnam to normalize diplomatic ties in 1995. another 20 years later, their relationship is flourishing. nhk world's -- shimizu has more. >> reporter: vietnam's largest garment manufacturer has its base in hoe chi minh city. it employs 35,000 people. the number one export destination is the united states. -- is the deputy chairman of the vietnam textile association. he says during the vietnam war, he fought against the united states. he help build the ho chi minh trail, a network of supply routes delivering weapons, food, and equipment from north vietnam to antigovernment forces in the south. he survived numerous u.s. air raids. >> translator: we disposed of bombs while single mindedly constructing the trail. back then, my mind was filled with nothing but hatred for america. >> reporter: after the war, having shed his military uniform, truong's anger gradually faded as he forged business partnerships with american firms. >> translator: the americans supported us in various ways, from management, to production control. after vietn

in vietnam escalated steadily throughout the 1960s.tnam responded by calling up more and more young men to fight. as a result, this scene captured by an indian crew, became a daily event. the village is bidding farewell to its sons. they were among the estimated two million young north vietnamese men sent into battle. many headed to the battlefield after only three months of basic training. another scene filmed by the japanese agency. but there is no record of where the footage was taken. the documentation was lost. who are these village youths? what were they thinking as they headed off to battle? did they ever return home? 40 years after the guns fell silent, we went looking for these young men. >> april 2015, our crew begins in vietnam's capital of hanoi. our first interview is with doan, who is 66. during the war, north vietnamese authorities assigned him to act as an interpreter. two interpreters were assigned full time to the office. we asked him to view the film. it seems he hasn't seen it before. and he can't recall going on th

clean in vietnam's. the day kennedy was shot he did a little tap dance in his office. he said it is time somebody shot back commie son of a with a $2,000 price on his head then he had a headstone that went into the mountain had his name on it and he got the message and at that point he became extremely paranoid and spend all the time in his office into came up with reasons not to be in the conflict -- kong for a -- he was the commander on that convoy ben he disappeared off the radio for 12 minutes and he took a bunch of casualties'. of is trying to get a hold of him to really the enemy position that they call counter battery fire in return casualty's with some excuses and after that day he never took another convoy not through the hot area and was always something in the office that had to be done and did that plane to he was sleeping during the day in his jack -- and his lack jacket i had a moral dilemma on my hands and i would have to answer the watergate questions what did you know, and when did he know it and what did you do? to be privy to the act the article 32 i

this is vietnam -- who says vietnam was a loss? doesn't that depend on how you define victory?people who served in vietnam not always, but often it does. i think it is a valid question. it depends on what you define victory. i think people can argue that the reason the war cannot continue was because congress pulled the funding. we could've have one had a continued. it is hard to know what would've happened if the funding had continued. i think that we are saying in the book that it was like a defeat. at was -- that was how was perceived. that was how the president subsequently proceeded. as a result, i think that i see the caller's point. people to find out that way. i respect the position of people who would say that i do not define it that way. but i think in the book we are. host: let us bring in some vietnam veterans. we have special lines for them. charles is a vietnam veteran from louisiana. good morning. you're on with marvin and deborah kalb. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. i served in vietnam from 1971-1972. i retired after 40 years and nine mon

during the vietnam war. around the perimeter there's contamination from the use of agent orange deochlin. denapping air force base is the only clean up. we have to identify the victims of agent orange dioxin, and you showed pictures of children harmed. the other thing that we need to do this invite unanimous is clean up the hot spots. there's 28 of them. >> there are undetonated explosives on the ground. >> yes, there are. united states dropping 7.8 million tonnes of ordinance on vietnam during the conflict which is more tonnage than used by the united states against germany and japan in the world war ii. 100,000 tonnes remains in the land and it's still contaminating >>> it's 1973 the nixon administration recognises that agent orange caused problems, dedicating a billion to help the hurt people. did any of that money reach the vietnamese? >> no it did not. none of that money came through to vietnam. the only amount allocated was $75 million to clean up one air force base and that is around da nang. there's

>> there are nuclear warheads in north vietnam -- well there is no north vietnam. oh north korea. china says well there are nuclear warheads in north korea. a major increase. i'm sorry i didn't see the article. i really can't comment on what's going on there. i have to get on a plane to come to dallas. [inaudible] >> the question is what motivated nixon to turn to china? quagmire in vietnam, the idea that if he could make friends with china it would put the soviets and balance the soviets and china would put pressure on ho chi minh to end the war. china has so little influence on north vietnam and that calculation wasn't there. nixon had a big quagmire in vietnam and he saw from a larger perspective that may be mao would help him out. >> you described all the mistakes we have made along the way in dealing with china. today are we better off because of those mistakes? is the relationship any better? >> is the relationship better? the bridge is very narrow. when you cross the pacific, when you consider again china is one forth of humanity. we have the two largest economies on either

saigon, the capital city of south vietnam, falls. the 15-year-long vietnam war comes to an end., 40 years later, economic reforms have brought remarkable development to vietnam. it's a young vibrant country. less than half the population experienced the war, but many vietnamese still bear the scars. [ speaking foreign language ] ' . >>> agent orange is a chemical defol yapt. the united states and south vietnamese armies sprayed large quantities over the jungle. their aim was to strip the trees bare. without cover, enemy soldiers couldn't carry out attacks. agent orange contains dieoxin, a substance toxic to the human body. this family has been suffering from the effects for three generations. t imt et is a former soldier who was exposed to agent orange on the battlefield. soon after being discharged, he began experiencing live and kidney problems. he's been on daily medications ever since. his son started suffering joint problems at the age of 6 and eventually lost the use of his hands and feet. >> translator: i had a sickness. none of the people around me wanted anything to do

it's more freedom, more free market in vietnam.it's very easy to do business in vietnam now. >> reporter: in my next report the story of reconciliation. how an american flier and the vietnamese pilot who shot him down have become the closest of friends. reporting from ho chi minh city in vietnam, chris gordon, news4. >> real powerful stuff there from chris gordon. and you can watch part two of our story monday night at 6:00. chris has written about his trip and posted exclusive videos in our news4bc washington app. search vietnam. >>> today you can see and hear a preview of the memorial day concert. tonight there will be a concert dress rehearsal at 8:00 p.m. gates will open to the public at 5:00. actors joe montigna and gary senise will host. gloria estefan will perform. pbs will broadcast the show live. if you don't want to watch it just watch angie. >> get a live camera at her house. >> we loved the miami sound machine. >> you cannot help but get up and get moving and shaking and it is saturday morning. it's going to be a specta

>> and there was a big negative atmosphere about the vietnam war. how did that impact your psyche as a soldier. >> it was interesting. inside the military there were problems with dishonesty and integrity, all of those character issues. and so i got to be a part of watching the army try to rebuild itself. and even while i was at west point, you could read about different problems those kinds of things. so i think what it caused my generation to do was say that we got to take a different course. we got to be part of something different. i think it was actually very helpful because if you can't see what can happen then the cautionary tale is not in front of your mind. >> i say this and ask you, because i'm watching now, where at the point you entered the military there was bipartisan consensus at the vietnam war was a mistake. here we are, and we're now at the point there is bipartisan consensus that the iraq war was a mistake. and i'm curious, are you -- what kind of impact is that going to have on today's american soldiers. >> it is interesting. aft

we return to vietnam 40 years after the fall of saigon. the economics of growing almonds amidst a historic drought. and, a new space to showcase american art. >> ifill: as we've been reporting, wednesday night in baltimore was calm, in part because of the continuing presence of beefed-up law enforcement, and in part because most residents are complying with the curfew. newshour senior correspondent hari sreenivasan spent time in baltimore, reporting on how two vastly different neighborhoods coexist. >> sreenivasan: in the sandtown neighborhood of baltimore, a woman named marilyn on appleton street takes pride in the garden she's tending on her front porch. pride in the tiny corner of the city she's been able to clean up in the house that has been in her husband's family since 1959. but she is also scared. scared to give us her last name because of the troublemakers in sandtown, an element she suspects is behind the recent riots and looting. she fears retaliation from them for speaking her mind. >> we have drug dealers trying to come on our

it's more freedom, more free market in vietnam.y easy to do business in vietnam now. >> reporter: in my next report, the story of reconciliation. how an american flier and the vietnamese pilot who shot him down have become the closest of friends. reporting from ho chi minh city in vietnam, chris gordon, news4. >> really great reporting there by chris. you can watch part two of our story monday night at 6:00. chris has actually written about his trip and posted some exclusive videos in our nbc washington app. all you have to do is search vietnam. >>> well today you can see and hear a sneak preview of the memorial day concert. tonight there'll be a full concert dress rehearsal starting at 8:00 p.m. gates open to the public at 5:00. the concert will be on the west lawn of the capital on sunday. gloria estefan is the headliner and pbs will broadcast the show live as well. >> i didn't do it. >> no. >> angie loves it. >> i do love that song. >> and what an entertainer she's been. that conga song is 20 years ago. >> she's considered an ic

that applies to vietnam. offensively, we need to make sure they are going to abide by basic ilo standards. there are people are making less than a buck an hour. we need to make sure that mexico , as its auto industry and other parts compete with us, that essentially the workers there have their rights. it is also a matter of our intrusion. host: congressman, we have time for one more question. vicki needham: i was just going to ask you one more question about, obviously, something that has been in the news about the transmission -- transpacific partnership. transparency to the american people, that the public can't see it yet, that there has been an uprising about the availability of it. you have talked about this, the administration has opened up the doors of the more, kind of lowered the restrictions on who can see it. can you talk a little bit about lawmakers' ability to see the text of this developing trade agreement to and if you think -- trade agreement? and if you think there needs to be more steps to

i'm a vietnam veteran.e used to have arguments about who was the better soldier, who had the toughest time. the fact is that all veterans to one degree or another provide a great service to this country. as for the veterans of menstruation there was a qualification that if you had income greater than $18,000 per year, you could not take advantage of the benefits from the veterans of m

anything about contemporary art in vietnam.o i thought i could come and work with these artists, and in some very small way, you know be a-- a little drop of water in the ocean of reconciliation between america and vietnam. so i literally just called a moving company and said, pack me up, i'm moving to hanoi. >> reporter: this is a long ways from kansas and montana where suzanne lecht grew up and studied art history. she came to hanoi twenty years ago without ever having seen the place before. she did so after the unexpected death of her husband. since then she has created a new life and career for herself and the international market for contemporary vietnamese art, a form of expression that was totally alien to post war vietnam. >> so it wasn't that this wasn't a sophisticated, artistic culture, it was very sophisticated, but from 1930 to 1980 they're documenting all these wars, so then it was after the war ended, all of a sudden there was no more wars to document and that was really the beginning of-- and the gang of five re

military sprayed 80 million liters of agent orange during the vietnam war.n 88-year-old war veteran experience the use of agent orange firsthand. >> it was crazy what the americans did here in vietnam spraying us with poison from airplanes. when the planes came we would cover ourselves with rain capes but i'm sure we all breathe it in. reporter: the vietnam war ended 40 years ago but the toxin and its horrific effects remain. some of the youngest victims are being treated in ho chi minh city. one child has no eyes. another has a disproportionately large head. almost all are mentally disabled trade around 3 million people in vietnam are suffering the effects of agent orange. since the war 150,000 children have been born with birth defects. >> you need love to be able to work here. you need to love these children. without love, you could not survive here. reporter: for decades the u.s. government denied that agent orange was responsible for the birth defects. the u.s. is now funding programs for environmental cleanup and disability relief in vietnam. that for

growing up with my dad, he is a vietnam veteran who served to towards -- two tours in vietnam. he always told me, never to touch him and wake him up. i always had to call his name. he always told me, not to touch him. he never talked much about his experiences, but one day out of the blue, he talked about his experience and about what happened to him during his time there. he always kept himself quiet and one day let it out. i was wondering if the author has any comments on the life experiences of those who have served. on the colin powell doctrine, he has used the vietnam legacy as a basic ideology for not going into the war, but go again with all forces necessary to win the war. if that wasn't the case, then i think bush gave him the authorization to do that. i think we were successful with the overwhelming force, but that is a particular strategy that has not been used in subsequent encounters with afghanistan, is or isis. i was wondering, if we used that kind of approach that we used in world war ii, could we win the war because of the media coverage? host: i want to give o

now this is a map of nike factories in the country of vietnam. that's right. nike just doesn't have one factory. they have 67 factories. how many employees they have in over 300,000 workers. the work conditions are horrible, they're unsafe conditions for roughly 50 cents an hour. nike is a shining example of corporate profiteering off of outsource and cheap labor from other countries. that's how they make their money. if we do the transpacific partnership, all of that is just going to change. in fact they're going to guarantee us 10,000 new jobs. nike bought in -- brought in a whopping $30.3 billion in revenue over the past year. look at that number. $30 billion. and you know what? they just can't add anymore jobs in america unless they have the tpp. that's what the president is selling. mr. president, this is beneath you. they produced over 365 million pairs of shoes. not a single shoe was made in the united states. but if they get the trade deal all of a sudden they'll start doing stuff in america. the average customs value for a pair of nike shoes is just o

. >>> america's war in vietnam ended 40 years ago last week.he war's end brought no closure. barry petersen brought in two of them, determined to fill in the missing pieces. >> reporter: at her home in loveland, colorado, toby schneider is getting ready for her first trip to vietnam and a journey back in time. the vietnam war when she was a six-pound orphaned baby sent to america. >> i often think of myself when i was born. >> reporter: these few pieces of paper are all she knows. >> i have a real love for life, and i don't know if that has anything do with it, but i'm a survivor. i'm a fighter. >> reporter: some 3,000 orphans found homes in america, and many like toby came with no story. some were simply abandoned in a market or on a bus. >> i think it's all gone. >> reporter: but stacy meredith of suburban denver knows a few more facts as she prepares for her trip to vietnam. her father was an american soldier and her 19-year-old mother raised stacy until age 2. >> how do you miss someone that you certainly couldn't even remember? >> i miss t

the vietnam war when she was a six-pound orphaned baby sent to america.pieces of paper are all she knows. >> i have a real love for life, and i don't know if that has anything to do with it but i'm a survivor. >> some 3,000 came to america. many with no stories. some were simply abandoned on a market or a bus. but stacy meredith of suburban denver, knows a few more facts as she prepares for her trip to vietnam. her father was an american soldier and her 19-year-old mother raised stacy until age 2. >> how do you miss someone that you certainly couldn't remember? >> i miss the idea of having her in my life the fact that she kept me for a couple of years before she gave me up to me tells me she loves me very much and she tried. >> reporter: vietnam will give in hochman city, toby finds her orphanage. perhaps only a child who never met her parents or even her homeland can understand how important this moment is. >> i can't put words to it. i can't believe it. >> this is where you came from. >> my life started here because of people who cared so much and they

it details events in the weeks following the vietnam war. an nbc news special report from 1975 communist saigon, on american history tv on c-span3. >> each week, american history tv's reel america bring you archival films that tell the story of the 20 century. "the true glory" is a reduction of the office of war and information the british information -- british ministry of information, chronicling events from the d-day invasion until the east surrender of 1945. -- the nazi germany surrender of 1945. the film was digitally restored using software and a more tedious manual process to remove dirt, dust and scratches from

who serves up to 12 miles offer shore of vietnam.nt orange did not discriminate between those who stood on boats on rivers and those offshores. >> that the v. a. will continue to accept and review on a case by case bases all blue water vietnam veteran claims. and the work to ensure that veterans serving on blue water ships that operated on vietnam's inland waterways or september crew members ashore are identified. my goal is to simply right this wrong as quickly as possible. >> former u.s. nave i have says these have been left behind, but the head has the power to act immediately. >> with the stroke of a pen today, he could say those veterans who served on ships are eligible for medical benefits. the bumper sticker on his car says all you need to know, he is very proud of his service and now he just wants his government to step up to the plate in the same we he did over 40 years ago. >> we served our country and we are sick from a chemical that was used during the war. and we need to be taken care of. john tarot, al jazeera mancheste

but south vietnam has been trying to hang on, to no avail.g are relentless in their drive south. the u.s. marines and air force use helicopters to airlift more than 1,000 american civilians out

as well as korea and vietnam. monday president obama laid a reeth where the first two have been standing and noted this memorial day's significance. >> today is the first memorial day in 14 years that the united states has not engaged in a major ground war. on this day we honour the sacrifice of thousands of american service members - men and women - who gave their lives since 9/11. >> the commander in chief told crowd of the family of the fallen that the nation can never fully re pay the debt to those that have gin so much. >> the americans that rest between of the beautiful hills, and in sacred ground they are why our nation endures >>> 40 years after the war in vietnam ended, a group of u.s. navy veterans is fighting for medical benefits the sailors say they were exposed to agent orange and suffered from injuries caused by it. >> the u.s. government is refusing to cover medical costs. >> this man has been fighting the department of veteran affairs for years. >> i wanted to go to vietnam with the army not the na

and we learned in -- you're going to be talking about the vietnam war later on in this we found in vietnam that if you don't have the right strategy, air power is main mall ininimal in its effect. we need to have air controller, special forces, we need to have those kinds of raids that were so successful into syria. we need to have a strategy. there is no strategy. and anybody that says that there

vietnam has been trying for some years, to get into the modern economy.s getting there on some fronts with help. so there's some sense if there is greater investment, by virtue of it being in a more liberal trading environment, it will meet them. and it's like the conversation, that the rest of your rop should have had with. this is not a political union it is just a trading union. >>> vietnam is not there along with korea and japan. mexico and canada. and australia that are in the deal. but there is some sense these trade deals work well for countryes like vietnam and manufacturing countries and they'll probably see a net increase in their trade and standard of living. >>> join him weeknights at 10:30 eastern. >>> thanks. >>> some of the countries involved in negotiating the partnership don't have the heated domestic debate that you're seeing in the united states. how do they look at themselves? >>> benefiting from lowering trade barriers without the fear of job loss and thing of goods and more than 20 years after the free trade act, will it be different