Vietnam War Anniversary Reshaping America
This photo provided by Jeanie Jacobs Huffman shows her, right, with Principle Deputy Director of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Fern Sumpter Winbush, left, during an unveiling ceremony for the 2025 National Recognition Day poster.
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The Vietnam War that ended after the fall of Saigon 50 years ago greatly impacted U.S. society. For some Americans, it still shapes their lives today. They include a woman who continues to work to recover the remains of her father whose U.S. Navy plane went missing in Vietnam. An anti-war stalwart who shares the lessons of the 1970 shootings by Ohio's National Guard troops who fired into the crowd at a protest at Kent State University. And a Vietnam veteran who helps fellow veterans in rural Alaska after overcoming his own struggles with alcohol and post-traumatic stress disorder.