In 1975, I was due to sit my O'levels and the big political story of the time was the conflict in South East Asia.
Throughout the Spring of the year I remember the Americans being supremely confident of being able to prop up the regime in Viet Nam. Then the regime in South Vietnam seemed to collapse in double quick time, under the onslaught from the North Vietnamese Liberation Forces.
I remeber the quite incredible pictures of people scrabbling to get on to the last helicopters off the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. Incredibly poignant and shocking at the same time.
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