“Nothing bad happened after we left Vietnam”.
Except for the slaughter of over 40,000 South Vietnamese when Saigon was conquered by the North Vietnamese and renamed Ho Chi Minh City, otherwise known as the Fall of Saigon
http://www.afa.org/magazine/april2000/0400saigon.asp
I had just graduated high school at that time and well remember watching this disaster unfold on tv...The airlift from the embassy and the choppers being pushed off of ship decks...And I was mad as hell at the humiliation the US was experiancing and knew the worst was yet to come.