Vietnam: 50 years later

S.D. veterans reflect on war a half-century after last combat troops pulled

Fifty years ago this year, the United States withdrew combat troops from Vietnam. At the time, it was America’s longest lasting war, with combat steadily increasing from the early 1960s. The war proved to be a fault line in American culture, resulting in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not to run for a second term in 1968. Meanwhile, protests tor…