PANO - While the war was going on in Vietnam, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam was called Viet Cong by many countries in the world. At first, the words were not pleasant to hear since the Saigon government used them to refer to the revolutionary forces in the South.
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From Howard Zinn s People s History of the United States
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Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.