Crowds cheer as grand military parade marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War“The atmosphere here today made not only me, but all the Vietnamese feel proud because we get to live in a peaceful country that is independent,

Vietnam is celebrating the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday with a grand military parade and an air show 50 years after the fall of Saigon, the event that marked the definitive conclusion of the decades-long conflict.

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, and the end of the Vietnam War, the nation marked the anniversary with a huge military parade on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets to watch soldiers march in front of the Independence Palace on Wednesday morning,