Most people have very few real facts about America's part in the Vietnam War, and while they might feel sympathy for Vietnam veterans and the way they were mistreated upon returning home, they don’t realize that lies and misinformation have become embedded in America’s narrative history of the Vietnam War. Our mission in Vietnam was never to annihilate North Vietnam; just contain them and keep them out of the south, the same way our American forces had done on the other two fronts of the cold war; Germany and Korea.    The Soviets had 40 Divisions of combat troops and tanks along the East German Border, and even today American keeps 30,000 troops stationed along the DMZ in Korea.  In each of these battle zones, America’s military mission has been basically the same – contain the communist within their own borders, but that never seems to get mentioned in the press.