Many brave men and women fought in the Vietnam War, and a number of them didn't return home. If you lost relatives or friends in that battle, you may want to find a add some military patches that honor these veterans to your jacket. One of the best ones on The Cheap Place is the Vietnam Patch - In Memory of Our Brothers patch. It features a solider kneeling before a cross with the dates of the Vietnam War beneath the image.
The Vietnam conflict actually began in 1955, but the United States didn't get involved until later. The war didn't just take place in Vietnam, some fighting also occurred in Laos and Cambodia. The main forces were those of North Vietnam and their communist allies and those of South Vietnam and their anti-communist allies. The U.S. originally got involved in the conflict as a part of the military's idea of containing the spread of communism, something they believed would lead to the U.S. winning the Cold War. North Vietnam, however, saw it as a colonial war against France (at least in the beginning) and believed that the U.S. was taking advantage of the war to create a puppet state.
In the end, the Vietnam War is often viewed as a large military blunder by the U.S. In fact, the war was so unpopular at the time that soldiers returning from it were often viewed in a fairly negative light. Military strategy and training was heavily re-evaluated following the conflict, especially in those areas where American forces lost heavily.
More than 58,000 U.S. soldiers died in Vietnam. In addition to the memorials and other ways of honoring their sacrifice, if you lost someone, wearing this patch is a nice way of remembering them.
