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teytratoday at 11:59 AM1 replyview on HN

I remember when I was young all the boat refugees from Vietnam. I could not understand why people said USA lost, but all the refugees were Vietnamese. If USA lost, whay were they not American?


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ZeroGravitastoday at 12:34 PM

In part because the communist government actively targeted former South Vietnamese military personnel, civil servants, and anyone who had collaborated with the United States.

It was a civil war that the US got involved in, and they supported the side that lost.