From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Even people who are arguably wrongly accused of being isolationists.

Most agree that we in fact live in a world that involves global travel, communication, international relationship, foreign exchange.

Those are all goods that I think most Americans enjoy

want to continue. They want to see them continue in a way that is economically feasible,

secure, safe, and good. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour,

part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. That was Dr. Jason Gerke, assistant

professor of history at Hillsdale College. We'll talk in depth with him later on about his

recent essay, America First, the Iran Strike and current U.S. strategy. Also joining us in this week

of Veterans Day, Dr. Mark Moyer, chair of military history here at Hillsdale

College. We talk more about the Vietnam War at 50, and Dr. Tom Carter, Professor Emeritus of

History at Hillsdale, he'll take us on a tour of Luxembourg American Cemetery. First, we're

joined by Dr. Mark Moyer. He is William P. Harris Chair of Military History here at Hillsdale College.

Also, the author of a pair of books on Vietnam, Triumph Foraken, Triumph Regained. A third is on the way.

You can find his website, Mark Moyer.com. Mark, thanks so much for joining us.

Great to be with you again, Scott.

Talking about 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War,

the U.S. pulled out in the fall of Saigon, in fact, and you wrote a piece for the Washington

Examiner, 50 years on remembering the fall of Saigon. Looking back, five decades later now,

who would you identify as most responsible for the fall of South Vietnam?

Congress, White House, someone else, who's most responsible?

Yeah, so that's an excellent question.

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