The Boston Globe, March 10th, 1991
Last of a series When a Marine Corps helicopter returned the American flag to the US Embassy roof in Kuwait City, its whirring blades may have dissipated the gloom of "the Vietnam syndrome," which has festered in the national psyche since Americans retreated to the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975, fleeing Vietnam by helicopter. President Bush, who targeted "the Vietnam syndrome" throughout the war in the Persian Gulf, told US troops after the cease-fire: "We promised this would not be another Vietnam. And we kept that promise. The specter of Vietnam has been buried forever in the dese...
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