The world changed on April 30

For those of us who saw and witnessed that T-54 North Vietnamese Army tank crash into the gate of what was left of the U.S Embassy on today’s April 30, 1975, well, let’s just say the world changed.

I remember well the statement of a very senior officer serving in MACV said at the last tactical briefing at the Embassy.

It was the end of so-called “Vietnamization” of the war when he stated the problem was that the enemy was led by the George Washington of the NVA — and we got stuck with all the Benedict Arnolds. There were other reasons of course — there always are — at the end of any war.

A day...