This month marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a war that in Vietnam is known as the "American War."
On April 30, 1975, the government of South Vietnam surrendered to the North. The United States and its coalition of willing allies, after intervening in what was a post-colonial civil war and ravaging Vietnam on a massive scale, was finally defeated. Despite the war having produced some 2 million Vietnamese casualties during the time of U.S. involvement -- and with babies being born there to this day with birth defects caused by American chemical warfare (it isn't hard to find the WMD here) -- Americans, Australians and other allies have "put that war behind them."
"We've moved on from that," they say. "It's history."