Americans in Vietnam 50 yrs

 🇻🇳🇺🇸50 years ago, on March 29, 1973, American troops, defeated, evacuated Saigon. The war in Vietnam lasted 11 years and claimed about 2 million civilian lives, more than a million Vietnamese military personnel, and about 60,000 U.S. soldiers. Seven million tons of bombs and 80 million liters of poisons were dropped on Vietnam. But that's not what I wanted to write about.  The photo is of a lighter from the American soldiers of the Vietnam War. The inscription reads, "We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful." Perhaps these words capture well the essence of that war through the eyes of a soldier. The essence of many wars.🙏😇✒️