| July 15, 2007 | - Russia celebrated the 60th anniversary of the AK-47. “On behalf of all my brethren who died in the anti-American war to liberate our country,” said Senior Colonel To Xuan Hue, the defense attaché from Vietnam, "we thank you for inventing this weapon.”
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NYT
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| June 3, 2006 | - Former Army First Lieutenant William Calley was said to wander at night through Benning, Georgia, haunted by his memories of the My Lai massacre.
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The Kansas City Star
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| January 7, 2006 | - Hugh Thompson Jr., who rescued Vietnamese civilians from U.S. G.I.s during the My Lai massacre, died.
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AP
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| November 13, 2005 | - Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, said that history was repeating itself.
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Common Dreams
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| May 1, 2005 | - United States veterans commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon by laying a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C..
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BBC News
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| April 30, 2005 | - In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, veterans held a parade and costumed dancers acted out the crashing of U.S. warplanes.
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BBC News
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| March 11, 2005 | - A New York judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and several other chemical companies on behalf of 4 million Vietnamese who were poisoned by the 80 million liters of Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War. The judge said that there was no clear link between Agent Orange and the illnesses of the Vietnamese plaintiffs, even though the U.S. government currently pays compensation to ten thousand U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War impaired by Agent Orange.
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VOA
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| July 9, 2004 | - The Pentagon revealed that pay records of George W. Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War, records that might be able to establish whether he met his military obligations, were accidentally destroyed.
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BBC
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| May 2, 2003 | -
President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in an S-3B Viking airplane and, clad in a military jumpsuit with the words "Commander in Chief" printed on the back, he informed the assembled sailors, whom he said were "the best of our country," that the war on Iraq had been won.
The commander in chief, who served as a pilot in the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam War, told reporters that he had briefly flown the airplane. "I miss flying," he said. Few publications mentioned the president's long unexplained failure to report for duty during that period, and his daring arrival was widely hailed as a "Top Gun moment."
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New York Times
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