Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh’s Tomb

Japanese Empire, 1942

Eisenhower meets with Diem

Buddhist monks in South Vietnam set themselves on fire in protest of Diem’s repressive policies towards them. (Diem was a Catholic)

Ho Chi Minh Trail

General William Westmoreland with President Johnson in Vietnam

Vo Nguyen Giap with Ho Chi Minh. Giap, the mastermind of the Tet Offensive led Vietnamese forces in their defeat of the Japanese, French and finally the United States

And the legendary General Giap lived to be 102 years old! He passed away in 2013

Anti-War Protest, Washington D.C.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

U.S. warplanes dropping Agent Orange

Effects of Agent Orange

Bobby Kennedy

Democrat National Convention. Chicago, 1968

Nixon widens the war, sending U.S. forces into Cambodia

Kent State Shooting

Vietnam Wall Memorial, Washington D.C.

According to the federal government, veterans make up 9% of the U.S. population but 23% of the homeless population. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs the estimated number of homeless Vietnam veterans is more than twice the number of soldiers, 58,000, who died in battle during that war. Nobody can pinpoint a single cause for homelessness among veterans. As with non- veterans, the reasons vary: high housing costs, unemployment, substance abuse, poor education. Veterans may also contend with war injuries, post-traumatic stress syndrome and frayed family relations.