{"id":35307,"date":"2025-04-30T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35307"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:28:02","slug":"the-fall-of-saigon-plus-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35307","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Of Saigon Plus 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:620,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/diplomacy.state.gov\\\/stories\\\/fall-of-saigon-1975-american-diplomats-refugees&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260410002315\\\/https:\\\/\\\/diplomacy.state.gov\\\/stories\\\/fall-of-saigon-1975-american-diplomats-refugees\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 07:42:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 07:42:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>One thing I have found about getting older is that events that happened even half a century ago seem almost like yesterday. The Fall of Saigon is one of those events. Perhaps it was because it was an event closer to me than most as my father served two tours of duty in South Vietnam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came across an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/diplomacy.state.gov\/stories\/fall-of-saigon-1975-american-diplomats-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interesting website<\/a><\/strong> that details the Fall of Saigon from the perspective of the US Diplomatic Corps. It is part of the National Museum of American Diplomacy and is well worth reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend Danny posted this to Twitter\/X today. It was the last message sent out from the US Embassy in Saigon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-768x989.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-1193x1536.jpg 1193w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-940x1211.jpg 940w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI-1320x1700.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GpyUwmyXIAAC1PI.jpg 1590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was hoped for a long time that the evacuation at the Fall of Saigon was the last of its sort. As we unfortunately saw during the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31434\">withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a><\/strong>, it was not. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I have found about getting older is that events that happened even half a century ago seem&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,286],"class_list":["post-35307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fall-of-saigon","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35312,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307\/revisions\/35312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}