The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, says Wikipedia, including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both sides, 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S. soldiers.[16] By this war's end, the Vietnamese had been fighting foreign involvement or occupation in various wars for over a hundred years.
The monument above is on the National Mall, Wash, DC, near the Vietnam Wall.