the confederacy and the union and they understand their had been habits and strengths and weaknesses. golfers arrive at the 13th hole commemorating vietnam, still america s most controversial war. it cost the lives of 58,200 americans. after the paris peace acords ended the war in april, 1973, they would see more than a decade of quiet until communist cuban troops over tlhrew a tiny european nation and president ordered the invasion of grenada. we were told it was a paradise and it wasn t it was being redied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy.