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After those words were sent, someone took a sledgehammer to the machinery. The ambassador and CIA chief were flown out by 5 a.m., and the last official American presence--11 Marines--waited for a helicopter on the roof. Around them, chaos had blossomed: Saigon was burning, the communists were nearing, and thousands of South Vietnamese were trying to flee with the Americans. Hours earlier, one man had tried to put his baby on an embassy bus, as ABC's Ken Kashiwahara recalls in the oral history Tears Before the Rain. Kashiwahara watched as the man fell...
Just before 8 a.m., a Chinook-46 helicopter landed and whisked away those last Marines, drawing up plumes of the tear gas they had dispersed in the embassy to discourage people from going to the roof. And in that vaporous haze, the American war in Vietnam--a debacle that took 16 years and 58,000 American lives--finally ended. --By John Cloud
...Melendez gave the tanks permission to fire. The lead tank, "Barbarian 2," acknowledged - that tank is headed by Sergeant Al Wallace, 28, who back in Kuwait decorated his 120 mm barrel with the moniker "Baghdad beware". At 10:29 am just as a figure appeared on the roof of the distant bungalow, Barbarian 2's barrel exploded like a bomb. A cloud of dust enveloped the tank as 60 tons of Abrams recoiled across the road. A second passed then the impact. The bungalow disappeared in dust. "Rock Six, we no longer have a sniper problem," said Mitchell. He would...
...outside," their commander appealed to a couple of them who seemed ready to wander off. My own attempt at low-profile maintenance foundered soon after. Our four-wheel-drive with "TV" written on the roof and hood didn't help. One of the Americans swore quietly, and I was invited to leave. I parked across the road...
...Laughter and more music are still bouncing out of Rock Doc's Track. First Sgt. Mitchell fires up the laptop in his Track and settles in to watch "Deep Impact," for what must be the 20th time since he deployed in early January. And up above, sprayed across the roof under the 50-caliber machine gun and the stars above, comes the whale wheezes of Private 1st Class Jonah Bishop's snoring. War is 99 percent waiting, and every now and then that's the best thing about...