The Vietnam War effectively started in 1965, ten years and 4 million deaths later it ended with the North Vietnamese victorious over the greatest nation of all time. Not only that but the economy had been destroyed and the jungles that covered the country had been poisoned. The United States lost over 58,000 soldiers with thousands more wounded, missing and at least half a million vets suffering from post war physiological trauma or chemical poising and hundreds more returning as drug addicts. As a whole American deaths didn't even account for one percent, but the affect this war had on th…
