But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

And that a burden was taken off the South by the loss of that Vietnam War.

越南战争惨败,卸下了南方的重负

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And then Woodward argued quite directly that the loss of the Vietnam War began to liberate the South, in a sense that the South, Southerners, white Southerners, were the only Americans other than we always forget Native Americans who had ever lost a war.

接着沃德沃直截了当地说,越南战争的损失开始导致南方的解放,因为从某种程度上说,南方人,南方白种人,是美国唯一除了印第安人之外,我们总忽略这些北美原住民,输掉过战争的人

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And corruption pervades the government in Kabul as it did in what was once Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

American troop strength in the then-South Vietnam went from 184,000 at the end of 1965 and increased to 537,000 by the end of 1968.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09