VIETNAM WAR
"Those Americans who went to Vietnam fought for freedom, a truly noble cause. You and your comrades-in-arms who faced danger and death in Vietnam fought as well as any Americans in our nation's history.
Vietnam was not so much a war as it was one long battle in an ongoing war, the war in defense of freedom, which is still under assault. This battle was lost not by those brave American and South Vietnamese troops who were waging it but by political misjudgments and strategic failure at the highest levels of government.
The tragedy, indeed the immorality of those years was that for the first time in our history our country and its government failed to match the heroic sacrifice of our men in the field.
This must never happen again."
President Ronald Reagan